Has Henry Chou, DO received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,683 in general payments to Henry Chou, DO across 152 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 Henry Chou, DO 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 Henry Chou, DO 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.

Henry Chou, DO

Pain Medicine · Arlington, TXNPI 1619312725

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,683in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 152 payments — averaging $57.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$7K
Si-bone, Inc.$292
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$229
Abbott$154
IBSA Pharma Inc.$134
Merz North America, Inc.$97
plus $568 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,21349%
Food & beverage$4,47051%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	90	$7,210
Si-bone, Inc.	7	$292
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	7	$229
Abbott	7	$154
IBSA Pharma Inc.	7	$134
Merz North America, Inc.	3	$97
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	6	$96
Boston Scientific	4	$68
Pfizer	3	$59
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$50
Bioventus LLC	2	$45
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$41
Zimmer Biomet	2	$35
Johnson & Johnson	1	$34
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$34
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$31
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$26
Amgen	1	$20
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$16
Curonix LLC	1	$13

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

$8,683 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$85,932

Medicare patients

114

Services billed

1,590

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
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate	12	$6,700
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	223	$6,113
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	122	$3,331
Gabapentin	250	$3,290
Pregabalin	96	$2,076
Lidocaine	20	$1,555
Methocarbamol	131	$1,478
Tizanidine Hcl	192	$1,360
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	35	$1,141
Tramadol Hcl	112	$785
Diclofenac Sodium	47	$767
Oxycodone Hcl	40	$622
Duloxetine Hcl	28	$571
Celecoxib	40	$501
Butalbital-Acetaminophen-CaffeButalb/Acetaminophen/Caffeine	15	$495

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Arlington

Aaron CalodneyTyler$3M
Mitchell EngleHouston$1.5M
Melissa MurphyGrapevine$711K
Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$632K
Muhammad ZulqarnainDallas$556K
Daniel PakHouston$460K
Marvin ChangSugar Land$306K
David LeimanHouston$281K
Candice BurnetteSugar Land$265K
Ellen LinSan Antonio$251K

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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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