Noshaba Chughtai, MD
Family Medicine · Merced, CANPI 1538458591
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 212 payments — averaging $18.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$1K
- GSK$599
- AstraZeneca$467
- Pfizer$184
- Bayer$168
- Exact Sciences$153
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,90898%
- Education$652%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 96 | $1,365 |
| GSK | 36 | $599 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $467 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $184 |
| Bayer | 8 | $168 |
| Exact Sciences | 5 | $153 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $126 |
| Amgen | 6 | $116 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $109 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 5 | $92 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 4 | $90 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 3 | $74 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $58 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 2 | $52 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $46 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Merck | 3 | $45 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $42 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $23 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| VBI Vaccine (delaware) Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
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
$3,973 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 145 | $143,552 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 47 | $63,496 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 97 | $63,161 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 49 | $34,889 |
| EliquisApixaban | 37 | $34,594 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 29 | $30,463 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 19 | $26,747 |
| UbrelvyUbrogepant | 23 | $23,025 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 36 | $23,002 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 27 | $21,671 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 12 | $13,290 |
| SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist. | 16 | $12,870 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 26 | $11,628 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 15 | $11,578 |
| KerendiaFinerenone | 14 | $9,437 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $46 | $143,552145 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $109 | $76,78659 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $599 | $63,16197 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $184 | $34,59437 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Farxiga | $467 | $34,58051 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $45 | $26,74719 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $58 | $21,67127 claims |
| Smith+NephewSantyl | $1,365 | $12,87016 claims |
| BayerKerendia | $168 | $9,43714 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.
Other family medicine in Merced
- Amina HaggagNorthridge$112.8M
- Steven ReynoldsLong Beach$53M
- Rizwana MohseniLake Forest$26.7M
- Daniel JohnsonSan Diego$15.7M
- Stacey LayleSan Diego$14.8M
- Apinya VutikullirdCypress$14.3M
- Hanid AudishSpring Valley$13.6M
- Augusto FocilOxnard$12.6M
- Jack VuLong Beach$10.1M
- Suzanne FussellOxnard$8.9M
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.