Suguna Chirla, MD

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Christiana Hospital Hospital · Newark, DE · listed as Christiana Care Hospital
• Tidalhealth Nanticoke, Inc. Hospital · Seaford, DE · listed as Tidalhealth Nanticoke, Inc
• Tidalhealth Peninsula Regional, Inc Hospital · Salisbury, MD

Colleagues at Christiana Care Health Services Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 1481 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Merve Akbay, PA-C Physician Assistant · Newark, DE
• Zeena Attia, PA-C Physician Assistant · Newark, DE
• Mrs. Jaclyn Michelle Cherry, RN, ACNP Registered Nurse · Wilmington, DE
• Irene Gaines Internal Medicine Physician · Newark, DE
• Lindsey Gilhooly, PA Physician Assistant · Poughkeepsie, NY
• Dr. Christopher Joseph Grilli, DO Vascular & Interventional Radiology Physician · Newark, DE
• Fendy Jn Pierre Sr., MD Internal Medicine Physician · Camden, NJ
• Layla Kidane Nurse Practitioner · Newark, DE
• Stephen J Kushner, DO Family Medicine Physician · Hockessin, DE
• Xiang Liu, MD Diagnostic Radiology Physician · Newark, DE
• Prakash Seshadri, MD Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician · Wilmington, DE
• Sarah Elizabeth Straub, PA-C Physician Assistant · Newark, DE

Other providers in Castro Valley

• Usha K Sunkara, MD

  Individual Hematology & Oncology Physician · NPI 1346267028

  20055 Lake Chabot Rd Ste 130, Castro Valley, CA 94546-5332 · (510) 888-0657

• University Healthcare Alliance

  Organization Hematology & Oncology Physician · NPI 1225571771

  20055 Lake Chabot Rd Ste 130, Castro Valley, CA 94546-5331 · (510) 888-0657

• Kun Xiao, MDMPH

  Individual Hematology & Oncology Physician · NPI 1710326889

  20130 Lake Chabot Rd Ste 307, Castro Valley, CA 94546-5340 · (510) 204-8383