Has Nipun Chhabra, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $177,891 in general payments to Nipun Chhabra, MD across 332 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Nipun Chhabra, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Nipun Chhabra, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Nipun Chhabra, MD

Otolaryngology · Leesburg, VANPI 1861687584

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $107,829 of the $177,891 with a category attached, or 60.6%. Stryker accounts for 60.3% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $52,148 and has fallen 82.4% since, to $9,202 in 2025. Among otolaryngology clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$177,891in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 332 payments — averaging $535.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$107K
Medtronic$41K
Intersect ENT, Inc.$24K
KARL Storz Endoscopy-america$4K
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$368
Aerin Medical Inc.$196
plus $817 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$107,82961%
Speaking & faculty fees$40,82423%
Travel & lodging$20,73612%
Food & beverage$8,5025%

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
Stryker	153	$107,262
Medtronic(2 entities)	91	$40,785
Intersect ENT, Inc.	39	$24,372
KARL Storz Endoscopy-america	4	$4,091
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	12	$368
Aerin Medical Inc.	4	$196
Acclarent, Inc	2	$156
Baxter Healthcare	1	$138
GSK	6	$118
Optinose US, Inc.	5	$99
Phadia US Inc.	3	$58
Neurent Medical Limited	1	$51
Novartis	2	$39
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$35
Sanofi	2	$30
Olympus America Inc.	1	$26
Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC	1	$24
Merck	1	$19
Smith+Nephew	1	$13
Teleflex LLC	1	$12

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.

SCOPIS ENT$72,639
XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$57,743
CLARIFIX CRYOTHERAPY DEVICE$43,192
LATERA$38,723
SHAVER SYSTEM$28,700
XPRESS LOPROFILE$26,700
TGS GUIDEWIRE$26,600
PROPEL$23,043
SINUVA$11,823
FOCESS HD WIRELESS CAMERA$6,800
ENTELLUS - XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$5,292
N/A$2,580
RHINOFORCE$2,380
NASOPORE$1,275
NONE$875
ENTELLUS MEDICAL FOCESS SINUSCOPE$800
ORTHOMAP$400
XEROGEL NASAL/EPISTAXIS 2 PACK$400
VenSure$219
NUVENT$193

How this compares

$177,891 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 241 otolaryngology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$96,160

Medicare patients

312

Services billed

768

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
Ipratropium Bromide	52	$1,453
Ofloxacin	16	$774
Fluticasone Propionate	42	$575
Azelastine Hcl	18	$542
Methylprednisolone	50	$383
Doxycycline Hyclate	28	$263
Cefdinir	13	$158
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	16	$158
Omeprazole	19	$146
Mupirocin	23	$142

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Leesburg

Mahesh ParameswaranLeesburg$4K
Laurence OhalloranAnnandale$2.9M
Joseph HanNorfolk$1.8M
Ryan NordRichmond$454K
Paul LenkowskiRoanoke$282K
Kent LamNorfolk$127K
Spencer PayneCharlottesville$45K
Jose MattosCharlottesville$24K
Craig DerkayNorfolk$21K
Heath DreyfussMc Lean$19K

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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.

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