Sherard Chiu
Surgery · Fairfield, CTNPI 1790072932
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $94,007 of the $147,568 with a category attached, or 63.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 74.7% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $75,101 and has fallen 53.5% since, to $34,892 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in CT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 479 payments — averaging $308.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$110K
- Conmed Corporation$25K
- Covidien LP$2K
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- plus $5K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$13,7909%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,8755%
- Travel & lodging$15,95911%
- Food & beverage$15,92411%
- Education$94,00764%
- Gifts$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 136 | $110,290 |
| Conmed Corporation | 28 | $25,328 |
| Covidien LP | 51 | $2,252 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 10 | $1,539 |
| Medtronic | 33 | $1,418 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $1,279 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 70 | $1,100 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 52 | $877 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 3 | $761 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $552 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 3 | $480 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 12 | $334 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $298 |
| Novo Nordisk | 23 | $286 |
| Teleflex LLC | 13 | $275 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $201 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $70 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 3 | $67 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$98,581
- AIRSEAL$25,013
- DAVINCI XI$10,000
- TISSEEL$1,290
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$1,199
- HARMONIC Product Family$1,199
- STRATAFIX$1,089
- Sonicision$879
- Reltone 200 Mg$722
- Reltone 400 Mg$722
- Signia$672
- VOYANT$466
- STAPLING$466
- KII FIOS$466
- DSUVIA$233
- Endo GIA$173
- NASCOBAL$171
- CONMED SPECIMEN RETRIEVAL$167
- GORE ENFORM Biomaterial$152
- Talicia$125
How this compares
$147,568 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 289 surgery providers in Connecticut.
Other surgery in Fairfield
- Nikhilesh SekharFairfield$140K
- Roselle CrombieFairfield$113K
- Alph EmmanuelFairfield$38K
- Saber GhiassiFairfield$18K
- Jennifer SchwartzFairfield$10K
- John MortonNew Haven$970K
- Joseph AferzonPortland$712K
- Andrew DuffyNew Haven$256K
- Anees ChagparNew Haven$121K
- Craig FlochNorwalk$88K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.