Question 1

Has Frank Yuan received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $26,218 in general payments to Frank Yuan across 127 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Frank Yuan did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

Where does this information about Frank Yuan come from?

Accepted Answer

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Smith+Nephew	2	$13,333
Zimmer Biomet	46	$5,809
Stryker	50	$4,516
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	9	$860
Encore Medical, LP	1	$656
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	1	$326
Globus Medical	4	$206
Johnson & Johnson	6	$164
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.	1	$123
Orthalign Inc	1	$60
Axogen	2	$55
Saxum Surgical, Inc.	1	$52
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$33
My01 Inc.	1	$24

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