Has Buqing Liang, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $42,141 in general payments to Buqing Liang, MD across 29 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 Buqing Liang, 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 Buqing Liang, 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.

Buqing Liang, MD

Neurological Surgery · Loma Linda, CANPI 1740694736

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $40,000 of the $42,141 with a category attached, or 94.9%. Medtronic accounts for 97.2% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $40,659 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $289 in 2025.

$42,141in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $1453.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$41K
Stryker$385
Boston Scientific$227
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$214
Penumbra, Inc.$155
Microvention, Inc.$151
plus $28 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Grants$40,00095%
Food & beverage$2,1415%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	15	$40,982
Stryker	5	$385
Boston Scientific	3	$227
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	1	$214
Penumbra, Inc.	2	$155
Microvention, Inc.	2	$151
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$28

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

$42,141 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$32,341

Medicare patients

Services billed

162

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.

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Tooraj GravoriEncino$2M
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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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