Has Cuong Vu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,920 in general payments to Cuong Vu, MD across 118 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 Cuong Vu, 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 Cuong Vu, 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.

Cuong Vu, MD

Anesthesiology · Salem, ORNPI 1649455775

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,475 of the $2,920 with a category attached, or 84.8%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 49.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $864 and has fallen 60.8% since, to $338 in 2024. Among anesthesiology clinicians in OR 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.

$2,920in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 118 payments — averaging $24.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$1K
VGI Medical, LLC$445
AbbVie$247
Nalu Medical, Inc.$211
Boston Scientific$166
Vertos Medical, Inc.$104
plus $301 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,47585%
Entertainment$44515%

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	82	$1,446
VGI Medical, LLC	1	$445
AbbVie(2 entities)	12	$247
Nalu Medical, Inc.	4	$211
Boston Scientific	2	$166
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$104
GRT US Holding, Inc.	3	$56
Averitas Pharma Inc.	2	$37
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$34
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$32
Pfizer	2	$31
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$28
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$28
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	1	$22
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$17
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	1	$15

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

$2,920 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 691 anesthesiology providers in Oregon.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$134,780

Medicare patients

352

Services billed

2,421

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
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	23	$8,989
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	140	$4,277
Oxycodone Hcl	136	$2,807
Pregabalin	47	$2,658
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	90	$2,594
Gabapentin	87	$2,073
Tizanidine Hcl	98	$1,412
Lidocaine	11	$1,392
Morphine Sulfate	40	$1,190
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	53	$1,054
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	67	$721
Baclofen	31	$705
Fentanyl	16	$688
Duloxetine Hcl	48	$614
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl	21	$568

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other anesthesiology in Salem

Igor GostyuzhevSalem$2K
Shawn SchumacherPortland$82K
Neesa PatelPortland$41K
Kevin FlahertyBend$14K
Nicholas ConnollyBend$13K
Andrea OrfanakisPortland$10K
David FromeCorvallis$8K
Michael AzizPortland$8K
Aris SophoclesBend$7K
Brook GirmaPortland$6K

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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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