Derrick Cho, MD
Neurological Surgery · The Woodlands, TXNPI 1356559199
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $8,946 of the $13,602 with a category attached, or 65.8%. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.1%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,721, 2.6 times the $2,607 reported in 2019.
Across 131 payments — averaging $103.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cerapedics Inc.$3K
- Globus Medical$3K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Si-bone, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$712
- plus $1K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8,94666%
- Food & beverage$4,65634%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cerapedics Inc. | 17 | $2,740 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 17 | $2,731 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 5 | $2,327 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 27 | $1,922 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 9 | $1,824 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 25 | $712 |
| Abbott | 15 | $570 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 6 | $502 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| BD | 1 | $50 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $26 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $25 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,302
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$2,185
- iFuse Implant$1,594
- ALTERA$1,430
- CREO 5.5$917
- CLYDESDALE$584
- PROCLAIM$265
- O-ARM$238
- BRAINLAB$187
- EXPEDIUM$187
- STRATA$164
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$129
- Proclaim DRG IPG$103
How this compares
$13,602 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 23 | $231 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in The Woodlands
- Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
- Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
- Douglas FoxAustin$948K
- Richard MeyratDallas$883K
- Adam LewisCorpus Christi$792K
- Arnold VardimanSan Antonio$687K
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Scott RobertsonRound Rock$606K
- Sabatino BiancoArlington$564K
- Rebecca StachniakPlano$561K
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.