Alice Tang, MD
Otolaryngology · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1295025641
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,485 of the $1,966 with a category attached, or 75.5%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 35.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $823, 8.3 times the $100 reported in 2019.
Across 23 payments — averaging $85.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$701
- Stryker$664
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$231
- Johnson & Johnson$180
- Intuitive Surgical$134
- Dexcom, Inc.$22
- plus $34 from 2 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $26,889 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.
- Bristol Myers Squibb$27K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$48124%
- Food & beverage$1,48576%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $701 |
| Stryker | 6 | $664 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $231 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $180 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $134 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Conmed Corporation | 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.
- MATRIXCOMBO$531
- VSP SYSTEM, VSP CRANIAL$326
- CYTAL$218
- VSP RECONSTRUCTION$160
- TRUMATCH$147
- Da Vinci Surgical System$100
How this compares
$1,966 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 380 otolaryngology providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pentoxifylline | 31 | $1,029 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 66 | $384 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 15 | $184 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 20 | $88 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 19 | $48 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other otolaryngology in Cincinnati
- Alexander DonathCincinnati$64K
- Katie PhillipsCincinnati$14K
- Aaron FriedmanCincinnati$13K
- Yash PatilCincinnati$11K
- Ahmad SedaghatCincinnati$9K
- Esther ChengCincinnati$7K
- Lee ZimmerCincinnati$5K
- Matthew HenslerCincinnati$5K
- Joseph HellmannCincinnati$5K
- Thomas TamiCincinnati$4K
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.