Has Edward Chan, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $81,054 in general payments to Edward Chan, MD across 140 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 Edward Chan, 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 Edward Chan, 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.

Edward Chan, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Houston, TXNPI 1831357292

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $63,026 of the $81,054 with a category attached, or 77.8%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. at 57.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $23,019 and has fallen 99.2% since, to $181 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$81,054in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 140 payments — averaging $578.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.$47K
Olympus America Inc.$17K
Intuitive Surgical$7K
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$4K
Medtronic$2K
Noah Medical Corporation$1K
plus $3K from 12 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$63,02678%
Speaking & faculty fees$3,0004%
Travel & lodging$3,3064%
Food & beverage$5,0316%
Education$6,6908%

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
Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.	52	$46,971
Olympus America Inc.	26	$17,363
Intuitive Surgical	19	$7,442
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas	1	$3,690
Medtronic	5	$1,529
Noah Medical Corporation	5	$1,216
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$948
Atricure, Inc.	7	$681
Covidien LP	1	$465
TELA Bio, Inc.	7	$155
Merit Medical Systems Inc	2	$146
Baxter Healthcare	2	$100
Johnson & Johnson	1	$83
Lexington Medical, Inc.	1	$70
Merck	2	$68
Endogastric Solutions, Inc	1	$68
Caris MPI, Inc.	1	$35
Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.	1	$22

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.

Spin$36,185
SPiN Perc Localization Needle 19ga x 105mm, 1cm marking zone$15,958
Always-On Tip Tracked Forceps, 1.8mm OD, Serrated Cup$13,069
SPiN Thoracic Navigation System, 120V, 60Hz$12,420
SINGLE USE SUCTION VALVE (Sterile)$3,690
Single Use Aspiration Needle$3,690
ION$3,000
Da Vinci Surgical System$2,041
DA VINCI SP$2,000
GALAXY$993
EVIS EXERA II ULTRASONIC BRONCHOFIBERVIDEOSCOPE$923
LINX Reflux Management System$872
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$412
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$158
ESOPHYX$124
EndoFlip$123

How this compares

$81,054 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$79,741

Medicare patients

116

Services billed

311

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
Latanoprost	26	$104

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Houston

Michael ReardonHouston$713K
Danny RamzyHouston$527K
Randall WolfHouston$283K
Min KimHouston$185K
Marc MoonHouston$142K
Ismael Salas de ArmasHouston$121K
Shawn GrothHouston$110K
Mahesh RamchandaniHouston$110K
Gabriel LoorHouston$106K
Mara AntonoffHouston$104K

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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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