Has Sagar Chawla, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $27,285 in general payments to Sagar Chawla, MD across 132 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 Sagar Chawla, 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 Sagar Chawla, 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.

Sagar Chawla, MD

Foot and Ankle Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1144754169

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — grants (36.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 41.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $15,556 and has fallen 74.4% since, to $3,983 in 2025. Among foot and ankle surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$27,285in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 132 payments — averaging $206.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$11K
Stryker$8K
Peerless Surgical Inc.$3K
Paragon 28, Inc.$2K
EBI, LLC$1K
Medline Industries LP$613
plus $2K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Grants$10,00037%
Travel & lodging$4,80618%
Food & beverage$8,06930%
Education$4,41016%

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
Arthrex	14	$11,226
Stryker	66	$7,684
Peerless Surgical Inc.	6	$2,701
Paragon 28, Inc.	10	$1,774
EBI, LLC	1	$1,064
Medline Industries LP	8	$613
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$511
Restor3d, Inc.	2	$233
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	2	$186
Exactech, Inc.	1	$174
Kerecis Limited	3	$167
Nexus Medical Technologies LLC	2	$155
Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.	3	$136
Novastep Inc.	1	$136
Johnson & Johnson	2	$126
Acumed LLC	2	$117
Flower Orthopedics Coporation	1	$108
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	1	$76
Smith+Nephew	3	$64
Bioventus LLC	1	$18
Orthofix Medical, 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.

INBONE$4,453
INFINITY ADAPTIS$1,947
Product Portfolio$1,362
PROPHECY$1,286
Biomet OrthoPak Non-invasive Bone Growth Stimulator System$1,064
Biomet EBI Bone Healing System$1,064
INFINITY$814
PROstep$775
INVISION$581
Kerecis SurgiClose$529
CellerateRx$511
ORTHOLOC 3DI$175
VANTAGE$174
CLARIX$143
PECA Bunion Correction System$136
Kerecis GraftGuide$132
Ankle Fracture$124
EASYFUSE$118

How this compares

$27,285 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 196 foot and ankle surgery providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$42,273

Medicare patients

152

Services billed

295

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
Ondansetron Hcl	29	$113
Oxycodone Hcl	35	$111
Meloxicam	11	$40

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot and ankle surgery in Charlotte

David EllenbogenCharlotte$15K
Robert OlsonGastonia$473K
Austin MatthewsLumberton$279K
Matthew DzurikWilmington$142K
Kristen McGinnessFayetteville$123K
William RespessGreenville$79K
Brian FutrellCary$71K
Kenneth BloomMooresville$53K
Stephen HeislerChapel Hill$49K
Benjamin UmbelMorganton$37K

See the full list for North Carolina →

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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