Device Interventional Access

Chocolate

Payments companies reported to CMS as associated with Chocolate. "Associated with" is CMS's wording: it links a payment to a product without saying the money was spent on it.

$4,958associated payments (2023-2025)
119clinicians with associated payments
1company reporting

By year

2023 $251
2024 $1,226
2025 $3,481

Payments reported as associated with Chocolate, per program year, as reported to CMS.

Who makes it

Specialties most often involved

Interventional Cardiology $1,778
Cardiovascular Disease $1,027
Diagnostic Radiology $290
Acute Care (Nurse Practitioner) $278
Family $232
Vascular & Interventional Radiology $183

Where the associated payments went, by the receiving clinician's specialty.

Clinicians most associated with Chocolate

These are the largest totals companies reported as associated with Chocolate. They are typically speaking or consulting arrangements, which companies must report by law; appearing here is not evidence of anything improper.

ClinicianLocationSpecialtyAssociated payments (2023-2025)
Francis Dimtri Mcallen, TX Cardiovascular Disease $227.01
Abhishek Chaturvedi Rochester, NY Diagnostic Radiology $216.17
Christian Avalos Mcallen, TX Interventional Cardiology $155.00
Keith Horton Washington, DC Vascular & Interventional Radiology $140.08
Lowell Satler Washington, DC Interventional Cardiology $140.07
Jason Galo Washington, DC Hospitalist $140.07
Toby Rogers Washington, DC Interventional Cardiology $140.07
Itshac Ben-Dor Washington, DC Interventional Cardiology $140.07
Himanayani Mamillapalli Cypress, TX Cardiovascular Disease $119.62
Rajiv Jauhar New Hyde Park, NY Cardiovascular Disease $119.62

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.