Has Tamta Chkhikvadze, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,290 in general payments to Tamta Chkhikvadze, MD across 30 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 Tamta Chkhikvadze, 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 Tamta Chkhikvadze, 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.

Tamta Chkhikvadze, MD

Gastroenterology · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1952788663

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 92.3% of the total across 30 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 24.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $385 and has fallen 50.2% since, to $192 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for gastroenterology clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $1,827.

$1,290in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 30 payments — averaging $43.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$311
Johnson & Johnson$213
Boston Scientific$181
Olympus America Inc.$131
Cook Medical LLC$127
Medtronic$89
plus $238 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,19192%
Education$998%

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
AbbVie	7	$311
Johnson & Johnson	4	$213
Boston Scientific	5	$181
Olympus America Inc.	1	$131
Cook Medical LLC	1	$127
Medtronic	2	$89
Pfizer	4	$86
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$45
Merck	2	$42
Sanofi	1	$41
ERBE USA Inc	1	$25

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

$1,290 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,682 gastroenterology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$3,649

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	21	$277

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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