Has Chong Kim, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,263 in general payments to Chong Kim, MD across 12 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 Chong Kim, 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 Chong Kim, 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.

Chong Kim, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1467508663

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 12 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Abbott accounts for 72.2% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $367 and has fallen 56.1% since, to $161 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $5,193.

$1,263in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $105.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$912
Medtronic$197
Nevro Corp.$131
Vertex$14
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$9

$5,518in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $2758.93 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Vertiflex, Inc.$6K
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$18

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,263100%

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
Abbott	7	$912
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$197
Nevro Corp.	1	$131
Vertex	1	$14
Relievant Medsystems, 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

$1,263 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 67 interventional pain medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$55,774

Medicare patients

280

Services billed

709

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
Pregabalin	28	$749
Lidocaine	12	$718
Morphine Sulfate	14	$443
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	14	$363
Gabapentin	39	$318
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	11	$313
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	26	$205
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	15	$153
Diclofenac Sodium	11	$140
Oxycodone Hcl	12	$136
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	17	$136
Tramadol Hcl	21	$131
Tizanidine Hcl	11	$79
Meloxicam	11	$57
Diazepam	11	$5

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other interventional pain medicine in Cleveland

Zachary ZumbarCleveland$1K
Gladstone McDowellColumbus$660K
Humam AkbikFairfield$116K
Sara NashiCincinnati$116K
Jaudat MahmoodKent$97K
Omar AliSpringfield$67K
Dustin ReynoldsWesterville$61K
James OttingToledo$47K
Mark MalinowskiChillicothe$39K
David WalegaColumbus$37K

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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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