Christina Cheng, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1053600742
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 55.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,526 and has fallen 54.9% since, to $689 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $9,469.
Across 24 payments — averaging $117.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Globus Medical$786
- Innovation Technologies Inc$158
- Boston Scientific$137
- Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$101
- Medtronic$37
- plus $34 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,64959%
- Food & beverage$1,16241%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 11 | $1,559 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 7 | $786 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $158 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $137 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $37 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
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.
- VIPER$1,290
- MARS$422
- Irrisept$158
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$137
- Quartex$108
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$105
- Magellan$101
How this compares
$2,811 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Ohio.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 43 | $335 |
| Methocarbamol | 20 | $241 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 16 | $103 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $101 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 20 | $77 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Cleveland
- Jason SavageCleveland$735K
- Jerold GurleyCleveland$649K
- Haariss IlyasCleveland$314K
- Saad ChaudharyCleveland$84K
- Zachary GordonCleveland$73K
- Taylor PaziukCleveland$32K
- Jonathan BeldingCleveland$15K
- Bilal ButtCleveland$13K
- Prashant RajanCleveland$9K
- Emily HuCleveland$9K
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.