George Cheng, MD
Pulmonary Disease · San Diego, CANPI 1316174568
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 452 payments — averaging $682.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$167K
- Olympus America Inc.$35K
- Medtronic$26K
- Cook Incorporated$23K
- Pinnacle Biologics, Inc$18K
- Boston Scientific$12K
- plus $28K from 20 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $2150.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Covidien LP$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$50,64417%
- Speaking & faculty fees$126,61044%
- Travel & lodging$10,0723%
- Food & beverage$18,8966%
- Education$84,54529%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 226 | $166,887 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 47 | $34,758 |
| Medtronic | 34 | $26,353 |
| Cook Incorporated | 5 | $23,038 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 32 | $17,693 |
| Boston Scientific | 29 | $11,503 |
| Concordia Laboratories Inc. | 2 | $7,500 |
| Serpex Medical Inc | 4 | $6,332 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 3 | $2,622 |
| Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corp. | 5 | $2,539 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 15 | $1,531 |
| Olympus Corporation | 3 | $1,100 |
| Noah Medical Corporation | 7 | $1,065 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $1,020 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 4 | $837 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $741 |
| Steris Corporation | 7 | $677 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corporation | 2 | $660 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 6 | $560 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 6 | $348 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $298 |
| Body Vision Medical Inc. | 2 | $180 |
| Pentax Of America, Inc. | 1 | $176 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $106 |
| Stryker | 1 | $103 |
| On Target Laboratories, Inc | 1 | $34 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$144,688
- Blue Rhino$23,038
- DA VINCI SP$17,350
- EVES EUS ULTRASOUND BRONCHOFIBERVIDEOSCOPE$17,030
- Photofrin$17,014
- Spiration Valve System$11,268
- Single-Use flexible Video Bronchoscope$8,097
- DAR$7,740
- superDimension$5,370
- GENERAL PULMONARY$4,906
- Shiley$2,998
- ACQUIRE$1,841
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,588
- GALAXY$1,038
- ION$1,000
- SPiN Vision Video Processor$880
- Pulmonx Endobronchial Valve EBV$786
- EVIS EXERA III BRONCHOVIDEOSCOPE$655
- PROBE DRIVING UNIT$655
- TRUFREEZE$371
How this compares
$308,662 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,261 pulmonary disease providers in California.
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.
Other pulmonary disease in San Diego
- Edward FedermanSan Diego$3.6M
- David PochSan Diego$1.5M
- Shari BrazinskySan Diego$522K
- Samir MakaniSan Diego$371K
- Toby MaherLos Angeles$27.6M
- David PhamWestminster$5.9M
- Andrew WachtelLos Angeles$5.9M
- Aaron WeinbergIrvine$5.1M
- Michael RothLos Angeles$4.5M
- Namita SoodSacramento$3.7M
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.