Albert Tsai, MD
Orthopedic Surgery · Long Beach, CANPI 1700865482
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,235 of the $1,509 with a category attached, or 81.8%. Elevate Surgical Co accounts for 79.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2022 is the largest year on record at $1,267, more than ten times the $60 reported in 2019.
Across 10 payments — averaging $150.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Elevate Surgical Co$1K
- Stryker$177
- Johnson & Johnson$61
- Trevena, Inc.$35
- Merck$23
- Pfizer$14
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$27418%
- Education$1,23582%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elevate Surgical Co | 1 | $1,200 |
| Stryker | 2 | $177 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $61 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Merck | 1 | $23 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
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.
- MAKO$131
How this compares
$1,509 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 130 orthopedic surgery providers in California.
Medicare billing
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Naloxone Hcl | 33 | $1,841 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 114 | $1,486 |
| Cephalexin | 69 | $223 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 14 | $184 |
| Meloxicam | 45 | $163 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopedic surgery in Long Beach
- Peter KurzweilLong Beach$494K
- Phillip YuanLong Beach$60K
- Jesse CaballeroLong Beach$8K
- William WardenLong Beach$2K
- Marshall ChingOroville$17.8M
- Ran SchwarzkopfOrange$2M
- Brian ChingOroville$1.4M
- Scott Hackerla Mesa$434K
- Richard NussbaumSherman Oaks$238K
- William KimTorrance$164K
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.