David Cheong, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Clearwater, FLNPI 1457307183
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (57.8%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Optimotion Implants, LLC accounts for 65.2% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $9,086, 4.3 times the $2,112 reported in 2019.
Across 104 payments — averaging $197.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Optimotion Implants, LLC$13K
- Stryker$3K
- MVP Orthopedics Inc$2K
- Arthrex$2K
- Innovation Technologies Inc$586
- Zimmer Biomet$199
- plus $601 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$11,85058%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5007%
- Travel & lodging$2801%
- Food & beverage$4,38021%
- Education$2,47912%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Optimotion Implants, LLC | 4 | $13,350 |
| Stryker | 66 | $2,639 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 9 | $1,613 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $1,502 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 4 | $586 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $199 |
| Argentum Medical | 1 | $198 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $103 |
| Amgen | 1 | $92 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 1 | $41 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Optimotion Implants$13,350
- MAKO$778
- Irrisept$586
- GMRS$147
- RESTORATION$140
- TRITANIUM$138
- TRIATHLON$137
- mymobility Platform$105
- SurgX$103
- Xperience$103
- BlastX$103
How this compares
$20,489 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 211 | $3,775 |
| Meloxicam | 1,311 | $3,353 |
| Mupirocin | 43 | $273 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 30 | $240 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 14 | $201 |
| Methylprednisolone | 23 | $129 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 30 | $80 |
| Amoxicillin | 46 | $75 |
| Ibuprofen | 11 | $24 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 12 | $18 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Clearwater
- Andrew CooperClearwater$102M
- Richard HynesMelbourne$34.8M
- Mark FrankleTemple Terrace$31M
- Roy SandersTemple Terrace$19.6M
- George HaidukewychOrlando$10M
- Robert SantrockFernandina Beach$7.3M
- Martin RocheFt. Lauderdale$7.1M
- Steven LyonsTampa$6.7M
- Thomas BernasekTemple Terrace$6.4M
- Bryan SpringerJacksonville$6.3M
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.