Edwin Chang, MD
Neurological Surgery · Staten Island, NYNPI 1356322697
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 58 payments — averaging $91.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$1K
- Spineology Inc.$885
- Globus Medical$796
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$708
- Zimvie Inc.$287
- Si-bone, Inc.$241
- plus $869 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,279100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 14 | $1,491 |
| Spineology Inc. | 3 | $885 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 7 | $796 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 6 | $708 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 3 | $287 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 11 | $241 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $155 |
| Stryker | 1 | $147 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $96 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 1 | $86 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $61 |
| Stratus Medical, LLC | 1 | $55 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $26 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Medical Device$1,154
- OptiMesh Interbody Fusion System$586
- XLIF$392
- OptiMesh Graft Containment$299
- Spine-None$240
- N/A$147
- STREAMLINE MIS SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM$139
- COFIX IMPLANT 10 MM$137
- Omnia$136
- Senza$121
- ARAI SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM$121
- COALITION AGX$121
- ANNEX ADJACENT LEVEL SYSTEM$120
- COFLEX INTERLAMINAR TECHNOLOGY, 10MM$116
- X-CORE$110
- FORTILINK-TS IBF SYSTEM WITH TETRAFUSE 3D TECHNOLOGY$108
How this compares
$5,279 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 39 | $830 |
| Gabapentin | 29 | $318 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $123 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Staten Island
- Soriaya MotivalaStaten Island$168K
- John ShiauStaten Island$161K
- J MoccoNew York$16.3M
- Adnan SiddiquiWilliamsville$15.7M
- Ryan DenhaeseWilliamsville$2M
- Christopher KellnerNew York$1.8M
- Elad LevyWilliamsville$1.6M
- Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.3M
- Gordon BaltuchNew York$1.2M
- Leo HopkinsBuffalo$1.2M
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.