Has George Tang, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $95,500 in general payments to George Tang, MD across 40 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 George Tang, 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 George Tang, 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.

George Tang, MD

Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, Sports Medicine · Pasadena, CANPI 1366544629

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $65,100 of the $95,500 with a category attached, or 68.2%. Advanced Orthopaedic Solutions, Inc. accounts for 68.2% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $33,489 and has fallen 97.4% since, to $883 in 2025. Among neuromusculoskeletal medicine, sports medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$95,500in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $2387.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Advanced Orthopaedic Solutions, Inc.$65K
Arthrex$26K
KCI USA, Inc.$2K
Abbott$771
Vericel Corporation$631
Shockwave Medical, Inc$186
plus $487 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$28,32530%
Speaking & faculty fees$65,10068%
Travel & lodging$4160%
Food & beverage$1,6592%

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
Advanced Orthopaedic Solutions, Inc.	8	$65,100
Arthrex	4	$26,200
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$2,125
Abbott	9	$771
Vericel Corporation	3	$631
Shockwave Medical, Inc	1	$186
Ortho Development Corporation	2	$137
Stryker	3	$81
Baxter Healthcare	1	$70
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$51
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	1	$50
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc	2	$41
Lima USA, Inc.	1	$21
Bioventus LLC	1	$20
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	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.

AOS PRODUCTS$33,400
Trochanteric Nail$31,700
PREVENA RESTOR ROTO-FORM$2,125
MACI$631
Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$186
XIENCE SKYPOINT$182
DRAGONFLY OPSTAR$156
PRESSUREWIRE$147
BKS TriMax$110
ENTRADA$110

How this compares

$95,500 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 28 neuromusculoskeletal medicine, sports medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$409,715

Medicare patients

530

Services billed

8,710

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	217	$1,531
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	49	$1,115
Ibuprofen	118	$676
Diclofenac Sodium	20	$552
Tramadol Hcl	85	$211
Cephalexin	23	$157

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neuromusculoskeletal medicine, sports medicine in Pasadena

Vahe PanossianPasadena$18K
Eric SickingerSan Clemente$12K
Chin KimAnaheim$7K
Harold JacksonSacramento$3K
Yigit KarasozenLos Angeles$814
Thomas ReeceSan Rafael$582
Michael Bloomvan Nuys$415
Dirk DiefendorfSan Mateo$404
Pamela DownsSanta Ana$249
Gina LoknaSacramento$206

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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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