Has Chester Chua, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,391 in general payments to Chester Chua, MD across 15 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 Chester Chua, 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 Chester Chua, 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.

Chester Chua, MD

Internal Medicine · Yakima, WANPI 1437293206

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,222 of the $1,391 with a category attached, or 87.9%. It is spread thinly across 9 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $714 and has fallen 63.2% since, to $263 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in WA 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.

$1,391in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $92.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$246
AstraZeneca$203
Inari Medical, Inc.$188
Astellas Pharma US Inc$169
Stryker$164
Boston Scientific$141
plus $281 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,22288%
Education$16912%

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
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$246
AstraZeneca	4	$203
Inari Medical, Inc.	2	$188
Astellas Pharma US Inc	2	$169
Stryker	1	$164
Boston Scientific	1	$141
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$125
Sobi, Inc	1	$88
Ceribell, Inc.	1	$68

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

$1,391 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,038 internal medicine providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$119,942

Medicare patients

299

Services billed

1,299

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
Pantoprazole Sodium	11	$143
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate	13	$141
Metoprolol Succinate	16	$94
Potassium Chloride	11	$83
Amlodipine Besylate	13	$77
Spironolactone	16	$76
Furosemide	16	$62
Atorvastatin Calcium	11	$55
Levofloxacin	13	$51
Lisinopril	13	$38
Prednisone	17	$27

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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