Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

CHIRAG K DESAI

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease

NPI
1275978330
CMS profile
969931
Location
BAKERSFIELD, CA

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$8,595.82

  • Reported across 164 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$623.87

23 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $623.87 23

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Abbott Laboratories $242.42 9
ABIOMED $148.37 3
PFIZER INC. $65.74 4
Amgen Inc. $59.30 3
SCPHARMACEUTICALS INC. $48.07 1
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $42.90 2
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, plc $17.07 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $392.08 6
PY2019 $4,259.22 45
PY2020 $111.82 4
PY2021 $247.14 13
PY2022 $863.88 31
PY2023 $2,097.81 42
PY2024 $623.87 23

Payment records · PY2024 (23)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Abbott Laboratories $10.10 02/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124951317 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $52.53 04/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124951320 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $38.05 05/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124951324 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $40.91 07/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124951329 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $18.34 08/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124951344 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $6.64 08/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124951348 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $25.83 09/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124951332 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $25.82 12/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124951336 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $24.20 12/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124951340 CMS
ABIOMED $67.22 08/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1142239802 CMS
ABIOMED $41.45 09/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1142239804 CMS
ABIOMED $39.70 10/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1142239760 CMS
Amgen Inc. $19.11 05/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1111562317 CMS
Amgen Inc. $22.93 06/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1111562319 CMS
Amgen Inc. $17.26 09/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1111562321 CMS
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, plc $17.07 02/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1154859930 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $20.73 02/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1141937471 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $22.17 07/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1141879921 CMS
PFIZER INC. $14.56 01/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1130999066 CMS
PFIZER INC. $13.66 07/31/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131811604 CMS
PFIZER INC. $15.82 10/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1132104097 CMS
PFIZER INC. $21.70 12/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131072599 CMS
SCPHARMACEUTICALS INC. $48.07 07/31/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1132290834 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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