En Yaw Hong, MD
Vascular Surgery · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1346656683
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (43.6%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. at 25.9% of the total.
Across 70 payments — averaging $164.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Cook Incorporated$1K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Intuitive Surgical$521
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,0009%
- Travel & lodging$3,24528%
- Food & beverage$5,01544%
- Education$2,23419%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 22 | $2,974 |
| Medtronic | 12 | $1,701 |
| Cook Incorporated | 2 | $1,485 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 6 | $1,343 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $1,000 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $521 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 5 | $518 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $491 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 3 | $404 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $161 |
| Stryker | 1 | $160 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $148 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $146 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $131 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $100 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 2 | $75 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Cook$1,404
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,289
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$1,289
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$1,000
- ENDURANT IIS$843
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$809
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$762
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$518
- Da Vinci Surgical System$500
- Heli-FX EndoAnchor System$342
- GORE-TEX Vascular Graft$342
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$266
- Indigo System$173
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$161
- ARTIX MT$160
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$146
- Grafts$138
- Penumbra System$134
- Barostim Neo System$107
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$106
How this compares
$11,494 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 213 vascular surgery providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 37 | $323 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 17 | $136 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Cincinnati
- Patrick MuckCincinnati$650K
- Brian KuhnCincinnati$184K
- Matthew RechtCincinnati$73K
- Geoffrey AnswiniCincinnati$65K
- Christopher PaprzyckiCincinnati$40K
- Richard FriesCincinnati$33K
- Sasidhar KilaruCincinnati$33K
- Stuart DonovanCincinnati$31K
- Andrew HearnCincinnati$24K
- Aaron KulwickiCincinnati$23K
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.