Has Sangeeta Chitlu received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,825 in general payments to Sangeeta Chitlu across 105 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 Sangeeta Chitlu 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 Sangeeta Chitlu 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.

Sangeeta Chitlu

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · Leesburg, VANPI 1336342195

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 105 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,195 and has fallen 95.1% since, to $58 in 2024.

$1,825in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 105 payments — averaging $17.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$353
Lundbeck LLC$328
Johnson & Johnson$221
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$204
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$124
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$119
plus $477 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,825100%

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
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	33	$353
Lundbeck LLC	19	$328
Johnson & Johnson	8	$221
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	10	$204
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	7	$124
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	2	$119
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	4	$109
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	5	$78
Neos Therapeutics, LP	4	$69
Tris Pharma Inc	3	$54
Shire North American Group Inc	2	$42
Adlon Therapeutics L.p.	2	$31
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$26
Corium, LLC	1	$23
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$18
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$15
Neuronetics, Inc.	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.

INGREZZA$104

How this compares

$1,825 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 115 child & adolescent psychiatry providers in Virginia.

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Other child & adolescent psychiatry in Leesburg

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David GouldRichmond$9K
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Maria Carmen Rita Gonzales VigilarAshburn$6K
Stacy PaggiFairfax$6K
Craig SwaineyRichmond$5K
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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