Cherry Chen, MD
Internal Medicine · Portland, ORNPI 1730445727
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 87 payments — averaging $31.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AOP Health US, LLC$885
- Johnson & Johnson$428
- Pfizer$251
- AstraZeneca$172
- Vifor Pharma, Inc.$136
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$121
- plus $721 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,712100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AOP Health US, LLC | 1 | $885 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $428 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $251 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 8 | $172 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $136 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $121 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $112 |
| CSL Behring | 6 | $88 |
| Merck | 6 | $80 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $74 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $73 |
| Novartis | 4 | $67 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $56 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $49 |
| EUSA Pharma (US) LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 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.
How this compares
$2,712 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,363 internal medicine providers in Oregon.
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 internal medicine in Portland
- Stephen SpurgeonPortland$8.6M
- James BergtholdPortland$4.7M
- Stephen FortmannPortland$3.3M
- Maryann ConradPortland$2.7M
- Jennifer SaultzPortland$1.9M
- Brian BattaliaPortland$524K
- Natasha EdwinPortland$365K
- Michael AzorrPortland$288K
- Charles ElderPortland$245K
- Jessica CastlePortland$153K
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.