Has Alex Cheng, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,037 in general payments to Alex Cheng, MD across 118 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 Alex Cheng, 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 Alex Cheng, 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.

Alex Cheng, MD

Otolaryngology · Woodbridge, VANPI 1689801656

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.0% of the total across 118 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,045, 3.5 times the $298 reported in 2019.

$3,037in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 118 payments — averaging $25.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Optinose US, Inc.$689
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$500
Sanofi$402
GSK$289
Medtronic$252
Aerin Medical Inc.$230
plus $676 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,97898%
Education$602%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Optinose US, Inc.	38	$689
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	12	$500
Sanofi	15	$402
GSK	16	$289
Medtronic	2	$252
Aerin Medical Inc.	7	$230
Alk-abello, Inc	7	$137
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$133
Acclarent, Inc	4	$67
Merck	2	$51
Neurent Medical Limited	1	$48
ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc.	2	$42
Stryker	2	$41
Cochlear Americas	1	$38
Kaleo, Inc.	2	$30
Johnson & Johnson	1	$20
Phadia US Inc.	1	$19
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$19
Resmed Corp	1	$16
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA	1	$13

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

$3,037 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 241 otolaryngology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$130,562

Medicare patients

455

Services billed

1,847

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
Azelastine-FluticasoneAzelastine/Fluticasone	66	$6,806
Ipratropium Bromide	73	$2,480
Azelastine Hcl	40	$1,058
Fluticasone Propionate	68	$991
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil	26	$980
Esomeprazole Magnesium	11	$213
Omeprazole	23	$79
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	11	$79
Montelukast Sodium	12	$79
Prednisone	15	$23

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Woodbridge

Laurence OhalloranAnnandale$2.9M
Joseph HanNorfolk$1.8M
Ryan NordRichmond$454K
Paul LenkowskiRoanoke$282K
Nipun ChhabraLeesburg$178K
Kent LamNorfolk$127K
Spencer PayneCharlottesville$45K
Jose MattosCharlottesville$24K
Craig DerkayNorfolk$21K
Heath DreyfussMc Lean$19K

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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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