Has Vaijinath Chakote, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,742 in general payments to Vaijinath Chakote, MD across 21 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 Vaijinath Chakote, 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 Vaijinath Chakote, 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.

Vaijinath Chakote, MD

Internal Medicine · Rockaway Beach, NYNPI 1366464232

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,742in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $82.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AstraZeneca$734
Boston Scientific$466
Abbott$264
Novo Nordisk$138
Lilly USA, LLC$80
Amgen$31
plus $30 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,742100%

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
AstraZeneca	7	$734
Boston Scientific	6	$466
Abbott	2	$264
Novo Nordisk	2	$138
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$80
Amgen	1	$31
Merck	2	$30

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

$1,742 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$22,101

Medicare patients

Services billed

462

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
Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol	12	$3,890
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	49	$1,875
Diclofenac Sodium	46	$1,412
Labetalol Hcl	32	$791
Losartan Potassium	72	$765
Metoprolol Succinate	39	$426
Tamsulosin Hcl	38	$396
Famotidine	27	$381
Simvastatin	55	$380
Amlodipine Besylate	79	$377
Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl	21	$289
Triamcinolone Acetonide	24	$273
Atorvastatin Calcium	54	$237
Vitamin D2Ergocalciferol (Vitamin D2)	24	$166
Azithromycin	33	$162

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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