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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $59,031 in general payments to Jeffrey Chen, MD across 551 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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.

Jeffrey Chen, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · San Diego, CANPI 1811183700

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (45.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bioventus LLC at 26.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $25,819 and has fallen 83.6% since, to $4,227 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation 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.

$59,031in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 551 payments — averaging $107.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Bioventus LLC$15K
Vertos Medical, Inc.$10K
Boston Scientific$7K
Abbott$7K
Stryker$6K
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$3K
plus $12K from 18 others

$23,256in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $11,628 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.

Nevro Corp.$23K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$26,99446%
Speaking & faculty fees$2,7005%
Travel & lodging$5,1199%
Food & beverage$22,52538%
Education$1,6933%

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
Bioventus LLC	29	$15,376
Vertos Medical, Inc.	36	$9,919
Boston Scientific	142	$7,019
Abbott	147	$6,673
Stryker	6	$5,618
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	5	$2,900
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	4	$2,063
Medtronic(2 entities)	40	$1,890
Vertiflex, Inc.	23	$1,792
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	14	$1,553
Nevro Corp.	23	$1,064
Nalu Medical, Inc.	24	$1,010
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	18	$567
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	8	$415
Painteq LLC	13	$353
Globus Medical	2	$163
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$151
Tenex Health Inc.	6	$123
Trice Medical, Inc.	2	$114
Cognoa, Inc.	1	$95
Biogen	3	$65
GRT US Holding, Inc.	2	$54
Merz North America, Inc.	1	$35
AbbVie	1	$19

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.

mild Device Kit$14,489
NONE$6,845
XEOMIN$2,821
HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$2,033
Intracept$2,016
PROCLAIM$1,661
Superion ISS$1,165
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$1,043
Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$671
SUPERION$548
Stimrouter Implantable Kit$542
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$526
Omnia$275
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$270
Evoke SCS$263
ETERNA$255
GENERAL - THERAPIES$211
Nalu Neurostimulation System$208
SPRINT PNS System$146
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$139

How this compares

$59,031 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 830 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$150,501

Medicare patients

467

Services billed

1,688

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
Gabapentin	11	$1,006

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in San Diego

Kyle RyanSan Diego$39K
Andrew SkalskySan Diego$16K
Rajiv ReddySan Diego$13K
Oleg GavrilyukSan Diego$10K
Jeffry MercadoSan Diego$9K
Ziyad AyyoubParamount$322K
Pratik GandhiAnaheim$122K
Mary OatesSanta Maria$115K
Kevin BarretteSan Francisco$84K
Steven SampsonLos Angeles$63K

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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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