Nepal Chowdhury, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Huntington, WVNPI 1114006574
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,834 of the $14,657 with a category attached, or 80.7%. 40 manufacturers reported payments, led by Endologix LLC at 42.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,439 and has fallen 79.5% since, to $910 in 2025.
Across 233 payments — averaging $62.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endologix LLC$6K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$608
- Bolton Medical Inc$501
- plus $3K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,80519%
- Food & beverage$11,83481%
- Education$180%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Endologix LLC | 50 | $6,181 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 27 | $1,881 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 5 | $1,528 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 9 | $1,136 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 21 | $608 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 8 | $501 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 19 | $438 |
| Abbott | 9 | $366 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $257 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 15 | $241 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $216 |
| Saphena Medical, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Corcym Inc | 3 | $126 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $94 |
| Merck | 4 | $75 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 6 | $66 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $62 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $60 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $53 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $51 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $50 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $46 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 2 | $32 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $24 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $21 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $18 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $13 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $11 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $7 |
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.
- AFX$1,810
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$1,340
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$1,085
- Ovation$885
- Da Vinci Surgical System$772
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$405
- AFX2$310
- Ovation iX Iliac Stent Graft$309
- Mitra Clip system$176
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$164
- ALTO$159
- Venapax$138
- KENGREAL$126
- IMFINZI$125
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$119
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$114
- EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$108
- ENDOCROSS Device$104
- Torus Stent Graft System$104
- Perceval$102
How this compares
$14,657 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 30 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in West Virginia.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 12 | $1,094 |
| Mupirocin | 33 | $208 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $86 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 12 | $86 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $49 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Huntington
- Nestor DansHuntington$7K
- Geoffrey CousinsHuntington$7K
- Rebecca WolferHuntington$19
- James RankinMorgantown$1.6M
- Vinay BadhwarMorgantown$56K
- Ghulam AbbasCharleston$50K
- Seyfi TokerMorgantown$32K
- Jeremiah HayangaMorgantown$27K
- Andres Jadue TobarCharleston$20K
- Robert HerronCharleston$11K
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.