Has Eric Chen, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,010 in general payments to Eric Chen, MD across 24 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 Eric Chen, 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 Eric Chen, 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.

Eric Chen, MD

Internal Medicine · Providence, RINPI 1881076156

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 24 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 26.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,857 and has fallen 97.9% since, to $38 in 2024.

$2,010in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $83.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$538
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$330
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$225
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$120
Bristol Myers Squibb$118
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$115
plus $565 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,010100%

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
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	8	$538
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$330
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$225
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$120
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$118
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$115
Stryker	1	$115
Astellas Pharma US Inc	1	$109
Merck	1	$102
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$100
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$100
Alkermes, Inc.	2	$38

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.

How this compares

$2,010 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$3,997

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Pantoprazole Sodium	12	$374
Atorvastatin Calcium	23	$286
Furosemide	22	$250
Hydralazine Hcl	14	$212
Amlodipine Besylate	15	$155
Cefadroxil	11	$96
Prednisone	12	$94
Doxycycline Monohydrate	12	$87
Metoprolol Tartrate	12	$82

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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