Has Chia Wu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,139 in general payments to Chia Wu, MD across 129 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 Chia Wu, 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 Chia Wu, 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.

Chia Wu, MD

Hand Surgery · Baytown, TXNPI 1124464680

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (43.8%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medinc Of Texas at 24.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,473 and has fallen 95.7% since, to $150 in 2025.

$11,139in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 129 payments — averaging $86.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medinc Of Texas$3K
Arthrex$2K
Stryker$2K
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$1K
Skeletal Dynamics Inc$766
Synthes GmbH$500
plus $2K from 18 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$5004%
Travel & lodging$4,55841%
Food & beverage$4,88044%
Education$1,20011%

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
Medinc Of Texas	15	$2,707
Arthrex	26	$2,164
Stryker	34	$1,922
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	12	$1,326
Skeletal Dynamics Inc	2	$766
Synthes GmbH	1	$500
Acumed LLC	7	$445
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	5	$381
Smith+Nephew	4	$183
Axogen	3	$149
Endo USA, Inc.	1	$130
Zimmer Biomet	1	$119
Globus Medical	3	$60
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	2	$47
ERMI LLC	1	$36
Medela LLC	2	$32
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$31
Sonex Health, Inc.	2	$30
Boston Scientific	1	$24
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$24
Solventum Corporation	1	$19
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$19
Bioventus LLC	1	$16
Alafair Biosciences, Inc.	1	$9

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

$11,139 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 170 hand surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$150,802

Medicare patients

302

Services billed

1,263

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
Gabapentin	142	$943
Celecoxib	35	$443
Meloxicam	74	$400
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	86	$263
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	54	$233
Ketorolac Tromethamine	19	$208
Tramadol Hcl	63	$90
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	11	$85
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	18	$79
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	16	$36

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hand surgery in Baytown

David RingAustin$536K
Kourosh JafarniaHouston$278K
Brendan MackayLubbock$274K
John FaillaceWoodway$212K
Daniel KoehlerDallas$208K
Timothy NiacarisArlington$160K
Steven NiedermeierArlington$152K
William PientkaFort Worth$113K
Ann GoldenDallas$107K
Cameron AtkinsonArlington$103K

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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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