Clarence Kong
Emergency Medicine · Norfolk, VANPI 1548846140
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — grants (48.0%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 61.3% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among emergency medicine clinicians in VA 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 78 payments — averaging $213.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$10K
- Abbott$4K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$2K
- Boston Scientific$541
- Vertex$152
- Globus Medical$105
- plus $70 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$8,00048%
- Travel & lodging$5,12231%
- Food & beverage$3,53021%
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 | 34 | $10,202 |
| Abbott | 24 | $3,924 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 6 | $1,658 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $541 |
| Vertex | 2 | $152 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $105 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Stryker | 1 | $18 |
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.
- SYNCHROMEDII$8,163
- PROCLAIM$3,068
- SPRINT PNS System$1,564
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$920
- INCEPTIV$254
- ETERNA$209
- DURATA$147
- Intracept$145
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$140
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$105
- Senza$105
How this compares
$16,652 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,279 emergency medicine providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 11 | $122 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other emergency medicine in Norfolk
- Edward ReadRichmond$402K
- Alex HamidiWilliamsburg$133K
- David BurtCharlottesville$76K
- Marleine ClayMc Lean$71K
- Christopher ThomCharlottesville$52K
- Michelle ClintonRoanoke$42K
- Scott WeirFalls Church$17K
- Fereshteh SaniMc Lean$13K
- David EvansRichmond$13K
- Matthew JonesVa Beach$8K
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.