Dean Chou, MD
Neurological Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1023066834
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $279,969 of the $382,627 with a category attached, or 73.2%. Globus Medical accounts for 84.5% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurological surgery clinicians in NY 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 183 payments — averaging $2090.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$323K
- Medtronic$25K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$18K
- Spineart USA Inc$11K
- Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$1K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$895
- plus $3K from 13 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $5687.50 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.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$6K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$279,96973%
- Consulting fees$32,5759%
- Speaking & faculty fees$38,23410%
- Travel & lodging$18,9475%
- Food & beverage$12,9023%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 62 | $323,133 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 49 | $25,291 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 20 | $17,501 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 22 | $11,324 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $1,228 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 5 | $895 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 5 | $779 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $600 |
| Synthes GmbH | 1 | $500 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 4 | $307 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $260 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $220 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $166 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $152 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $86 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Carbofix Spine Inc | 1 | $35 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 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.
- COALITION AGX$203,337
- COALITION AGX / AGX RP$76,632
- RISE$20,568
- CREO$17,660
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$16,128
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$4,365
- Perla TL$3,848
- ELSA ATP$2,231
- Magellan$1,228
- Ascent$1,189
- Excelsius Robotics System$506
- VIPER$501
- Trinity ELITE$363
- Other - Miscellaneous$328
- IdentiTi$322
- ELSA$238
- Arsenal Deformity$204
- CREO Threaded$175
- MaXcess-C$174
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$169
How this compares
$382,627 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.
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 neurological surgery in New York
- J MoccoNew York$1.6M
- Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
- Darryl LauNew York$915K
- Mark BilskyNew York$903K
- Jan-Karl BurkhardtNew York$441K
- Reade DeleacyNew York$329K
- Johanna FifiNew York$326K
- David LangerNew York$258K
- Ali BaajNew York$240K
- Viviane TabarNew York$231K
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.