Thomas Chirichella, MD
Transplant Surgery · Youngstown, OHNPI 1548577596
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $3,000 of the $4,932 with a category attached, or 60.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 69.7% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,064 and has fallen 80.1% since, to $610 in 2025.
Across 70 payments — averaging $70.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- AbbVie$525
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$391
- Intera Oncology, Inc$165
- Sirtex Medical Inc$155
- Biom'up France SAS$59
- plus $199 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,93239%
- Education$3,00061%
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 | 6 | $3,439 |
| AbbVie | 38 | $525 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 6 | $391 |
| Intera Oncology, Inc | 1 | $165 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 4 | $155 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $59 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $46 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $37 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bayer | 1 | $18 |
| Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $11 |
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$3,248
- INTERA$165
- HemoBlast Bellows$164
- SIR-Spheres Microspheres$118
How this compares
$4,932 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 43 transplant surgery providers in Ohio.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase | 188 | $514,962 |
| Ursodiol | 16 | $1,192 |
| Famotidine | 35 | $700 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 84 | $612 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 47 | $308 |
| Prednisone | 19 | $70 |
| Diazepam | 21 | $14 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieCreon | $525 | $514,962188 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 43 transplant surgery providers in Ohio.
Other transplant surgery in Youngstown
- Choon Hyuck KwonCleveland$507K
- Ervin WoodleCincinnati$200K
- Ralph QuillinCincinnati$132K
- Koji HashimotoCleveland$30K
- Mitchell HenryColumbus$12K
- David GerberCincinnati$9K
- Jaekeun KimCleveland$9K
- Ashraf El-HinnawiColumbus$9K
- Amit NairCleveland$8K
- Thomas ButlerPerrysburg$7K
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.