Rama Chandran, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Torrance, CANPI 1225049356
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,270 of the $3,272 with a category attached, or 69.4%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Encore Medical, LP at 35.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,697 and has fallen 90.7% since, to $157 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $2,444.
Across 70 payments — averaging $46.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$1K
- Smith+Nephew$1K
- Stryker$216
- Johnson & Johnson$144
- Globus Medical$134
- Zimmer Biomet$109
- plus $388 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,00231%
- Food & beverage$2,27069%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 6 | $1,171 |
| Smith+Nephew | 30 | $1,110 |
| Stryker | 3 | $216 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $144 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $134 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $109 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $92 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $84 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $30 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $21 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$3,272 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 80 | $216 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $104 |
| Ibuprofen | 11 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Torrance
- Tiffany RogersTorrance$1.2M
- Stuart GoldTorrance$872K
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Robert GorabOrange$13.6M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
- Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
- Nirav AminPlacentia$5.6M
- Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
- Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
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.