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

VISWANATHA R CHINTA

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology

NPI
1326291089
CMS profile
571798
Location
WEBSTER, TX

General Payments · PY2019–2024

$3,253.85

  • Reported across 52 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$367.91

15 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 $367.91 15

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2019 $225.87 4
PY2020 $94.15 2
PY2021 $311.98 3
PY2022 $207.46 1
PY2023 $2,046.48 27
PY2024 $367.91 15

Payment records · PY2024 (15)

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

Program year 2024 20192020202120222023 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 $33.14 07/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124990836 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $16.72 05/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104357869 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $38.93 08/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1078217325 CMS
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $30.09 07/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1081714650 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $32.62 02/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1141642566 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $30.52 01/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086757895 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $22.61 02/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086757885 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $28.59 04/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086757903 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $23.34 08/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086757909 CMS
ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $22.84 02/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1080714699 CMS
ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $17.25 07/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1080714701 CMS
ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $19.68 08/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1080714703 CMS
ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $20.47 10/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1080714705 CMS
ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $8.95 10/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1080714707 CMS
ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $22.16 12/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1080714709 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
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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