Neel Chudgar
Thoracic Surgery · Bronx, NYNPI 1598022709
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $7,440 of the $10,322 with a category attached, or 72.1%. AstraZeneca accounts for 83.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,198 and has fallen 95.2% since, to $343 in 2025.
Across 38 payments — averaging $271.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$9K
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$1K
- Gilead$108
- Philips North America LLC$68
- Smith+Nephew$56
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$40
- plus $35 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,44072%
- Travel & lodging$1,00710%
- Food & beverage$1,87518%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 30 | $8,621 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 1 | $1,395 |
| Gilead | 2 | $108 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $68 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $56 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $35 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
Too few thoracic surgery providers in New Yorkto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other thoracic surgery in Bronx
- Gary GrosnerBuffalo$15K
- Marc VimolratanaNew York$5K
- Allan MattiaBrooklyn$2K
- Syed YazdaniManhasset$259
- David DimarcoEllicottville$82
- Kevin HymanGreat Neck$0
- Roy OommenCortlandt Manor$0
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.