Channing Chin
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 115 payments — averaging $123.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$5K
- Medtronic$1K
- Novo Nordisk$607
- Johnson & Johnson$450
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$294
- plus $938 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,40031%
- Travel & lodging$1,2359%
- Food & beverage$3,71526%
- Education$4,88234%
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 | 20 | $6,217 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 11 | $4,571 |
| Medtronic | 13 | $1,154 |
| Novo Nordisk | 30 | $607 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $450 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $294 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $155 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $150 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 5 | $80 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $77 |
| Vertex | 1 | $71 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $68 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 4 | $52 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $31 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $20 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Zynrelef$4,520
- DAVINCI XI$4,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,821
- Signia$1,002
- LINX Reflux Management System$363
- Harmonic$150
- Enseal$150
- Echelon Flex$150
- STRATAFIX$150
- VISTASEAL$150
- N/A$150
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$139
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$135
- Wegovy$125
- Saxenda$113
How this compares
$14,232 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 593 surgery providers in New Jersey.
Other surgery in Wayne
- Eric WhitmanMorristown$4.3M
- Robert PerezHainesport$2M
- Adam BergerNew Brunswick$1.7M
- Joseph HeetherHamilton$1.1M
- Young HongCamden$926K
- Jarrod KaufmanBrick$524K
- Amit TrivediParamus$273K
- Harvey RainvilleGlen Ridge$159K
- Harrison CotlerOakhurst$149K
- Francis PrevitiNorth Field$131K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.