Has Aileen Hwang, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $194,564 in general payments to Aileen Hwang, MD across 245 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 Aileen Hwang, 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 Aileen Hwang, 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.

Aileen Hwang, MD

Surgery · Issaquah, WANPI 1104115658

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $144,088 of the $194,564 with a category attached, or 74.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.8% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $50,657 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $189 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in WA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$194,564in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 245 payments — averaging $794.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$194K
Davol Inc.$334
Stryker$62

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$21,00011%
Travel & lodging$16,9539%
Food & beverage$12,4786%
Education$144,08874%
Gifts$440%

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
Intuitive Surgical	241	$194,167
Davol Inc.	3	$334
Stryker	1	$62

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

$194,564 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 549 surgery providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$54,703

Medicare patients

Services billed

143

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.

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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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