Ching-Jen Chen, MD
Neurological Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1740607795
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $60,000 of the $80,105 with a category attached, or 74.9%. Medtronic accounts for 75.4% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $60,019 and has fallen 75.6% since, to $14,652 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in TX 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.
Across 89 payments — averaging $900.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$60K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$12K
- Microvention, Inc.$4K
- Imperative Care, Inc$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$276
- plus $295 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,80010%
- Grants$60,00075%
- Travel & lodging$5,4497%
- Food & beverage$6,8569%
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 | 4 | $60,433 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 13 | $12,016 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 19 | $3,916 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 28 | $1,668 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $1,501 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $276 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $143 |
| Stryker | 1 | $80 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $50 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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.
- ARC$60,000
- SPOTLIGHT$10,582
- STENT$1,613
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$1,027
- ERIC RETRIEVAL DEVICE$787
- SOFIA 6F-131CM STR$701
- Embotrap$686
- ZOOM RDL RADIAL ACCESS SYSTEM, 103CM$571
- ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$524
- LVIS JUNIOR$518
- GUIDE WIRE M$500
- HEADWAY ADVANCED SOFT$439
- ZOOM REPERFUSION CATHETER$400
- EMBOGUARD$353
- TUBING KIT - STROKE$296
- TRUFILL$265
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$165
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$150
- Chaperon Guiding Catheter$148
- PHIL$146
How this compares
$80,105 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.
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 neurological surgery in Houston
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Paul HolmanHouston$516K
- Taylor GistHouston$447K
- Meng HuangHouston$324K
- Laurence RhinesHouston$322K
- Omar TanweerHouston$254K
- Jeremy WangHouston$231K
- Alexander RopperHouston$208K
- Fangyi ZhangHouston$192K
- Ashwin ViswanathanHouston$185K
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.