Alice Chen
Hematology & Oncology · Bethesda, MDNPI 1518079805
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,640 of the $6,928 with a category attached, or 95.8%. Genentech, Inc. accounts for 95.8% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $6,640 and has fallen 98.1% since, to $125 in 2025.
Across 3 payments — averaging $2309.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Genentech, Inc.$7K
- Medtronic$163
- Biogen$125
Across 10 payments — averaging $343,599 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$2.4M
- Pfizer$809K
- AstraZeneca$91K
- Novartis$87K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,64096%
- Food & beverage$2884%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $6,640 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $163 |
| Biogen | 1 | $125 |
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
$6,928 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 242 hematology & oncology providers in Maryland.
Other hematology & oncology in Bethesda
- Ralph BocciaBethesda$3.1M
- Sandra SwainBethesda$1M
- Chitra RajagopalBethesda$89K
- Susan LeitmanBethesda$44K
- Giuseppe GiacconeBethesda$32K
- Phillip ScheinbergBethesda$27K
- Steven PavleticBethesda$13K
- Kashif AliSilver Spring$987K
- Ani BalmanoukianBaltimore$842K
- Benjamin LevyBaltimore$578K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.