Alexander Chung, MD
Hand Surgery · Great Falls, MTNPI 1275577249
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,985 of the $2,935 with a category attached, or 67.6%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Kerecis Limited at 46.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,543, 6.6 times the $235 reported in 2019.
Across 47 payments — averaging $62.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kerecis Limited$1K
- Imbed Biosciences Inc.$618
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$300
- Johnson & Johnson$192
- Smith+Nephew$142
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$133
- plus $182 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$95032%
- Food & beverage$1,98568%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kerecis Limited | 6 | $1,367 |
| Imbed Biosciences Inc. | 11 | $618 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 17 | $300 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $192 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $142 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Amgen | 1 | $78 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $50 |
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.
- Kerecis SurgiClose$5,091
- Kerecis GraftGuide$1,273
- XIAFLEX$133
- ATTUNE$102
How this compares
Too few hand surgery providers in Montanato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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.
Other hand surgery in Great Falls
- Todd CameronGreat Falls$68
- John CrawGreat Falls$26
- W Lea GorsuchGreat Falls$11
- Heidi ShorsKalispell$108K
- Julie AdamsKalispell$100K
- Nathaniel FogelKalispell$5K
- Thomas OwenBillings$3K
- Kiley ZieglerBillings$450
- Charles SullivanMissoula$226
- Taylor BuckleyMissoula$125
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.