Arnold Chung, MD
Surgery · Las Vegas, NVNPI 1558575480
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $31,000 of the $48,252 with a category attached, or 64.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 82.6% of it on its own, with 36 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $21,409 and has fallen 91.4% since, to $1,833 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in NV with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 243 payments — averaging $198.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$40K
- AstraZeneca$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Noah Medical Corporation$391
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$373
- plus $3K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,9044%
- Travel & lodging$6,00612%
- Food & beverage$9,34219%
- Education$31,00064%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 69 | $39,846 |
| AstraZeneca | 29 | $2,602 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 23 | $1,315 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 42 | $1,193 |
| Noah Medical Corporation | 1 | $391 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 8 | $373 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $282 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 7 | $249 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 7 | $228 |
| Merck | 4 | $206 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 3 | $206 |
| BD | 5 | $201 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $166 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 2 | $114 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 3 | $107 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $88 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $82 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $48 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $41 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $29 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $26 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Amgen | 1 | $24 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Abbott | 1 | $17 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$35,532
- DAVINCI XI$3,000
- TAGRISSO$2,014
- Kerecis SurgiClose$483
- GALAXY$391
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$322
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$173
- Restrata Wound Matrix$139
- ENDURANT IIS$138
- Valiant Captivia$136
- KEYTRUDA$123
- Kerecis GraftGuide$121
- PROGEL$103
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$100
How this compares
$48,252 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 209 surgery providers in Nevada.
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 surgery in Las Vegas
- Arthur FuscoLas Vegas$155K
- Ovunc BardakciogluLas Vegas$128K
- Jiashou XuLas Vegas$79K
- Charles ChesnutLas Vegas$76K
- Damon SchroerLas Vegas$74K
- Craig IwamotoLas Vegas$48K
- Stefan ChockLas Vegas$46K
- Matthew JohnsonLas Vegas$40K
- Clyde EllisLas Vegas$39K
- Morgan PomeranzLas Vegas$37K
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.