Choon Hyuck Kwon
Transplant Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1811438369
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $484,571 of the $507,346 with a category attached, or 95.5%. Histosonics, Inc. accounts for 95.7% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $484,660, more than ten times the $196 reported in 2019. Among transplant surgery clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 79 payments — averaging $6422.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Histosonics, Inc.$486K
- Medtronic$13K
- Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation$3K
- Transmedics, Inc.$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$760
- plus $2K from 11 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $101,290 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.
- Histosonics, Inc.$101K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$484,57196%
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,3252%
- Travel & lodging$6,8261%
- Food & beverage$4,6231%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Histosonics, Inc. | 11 | $485,512 |
| Medtronic | 28 | $13,205 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 3 | $2,800 |
| Transmedics, Inc. | 2 | $2,082 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 8 | $1,129 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 10 | $760 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $292 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $275 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $225 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $196 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $155 |
| Intera Oncology, Inc | 1 | $150 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $147 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $144 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $105 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Signia$6,466
- Synapse 3D$2,800
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$2,082
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,091
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$441
- HemoBlast Bellows$292
- EXALT Model D$275
- INTERA$150
- FORTIVA PORCINE DERMIS$150
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$147
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$147
- CODMAN CERTAS$144
- CUSA CLARITY$144
- DURAGEN$144
- DURASEAL EXACT$144
- CODMAN HAKIM PRECISION VALVE$144
- ENDO GIA ULTRA$140
- LigaSure$110
- Weck$105
- ThunderBeat$104
How this compares
$507,346 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 43 transplant surgery providers in Ohio.
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 transplant surgery in Cleveland
- Koji HashimotoCleveland$30K
- Jaekeun KimCleveland$9K
- Amit NairCleveland$8K
- Alejandro PitaCleveland$3K
- Kai ZhaoCleveland$2K
- Mazhar KhalilCleveland$2K
- Pranit ChotaiCleveland$2K
- Mohamed MakladCleveland$323
- Edmund SanchezCleveland$203
- Kareem Abu ElmagdCleveland$39
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.