Question 1

Has Roger Chams, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,122 in general payments to Roger Chams, MD across 17 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Roger Chams, MD did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

Where does this information about Roger Chams, MD come from?

Accepted Answer

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Arthrex	8	$1,179
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc	5	$642
Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.	1	$236
Vericel Corporation	2	$46
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$20

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