Has John Cho, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,099 in general payments to John Cho, MD across 118 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 John Cho, 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 John Cho, 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.

John Cho, MD

Otolaryngology · Honolulu, HINPI 1184975096

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (56.7%), travel and lodging and gifts — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 32.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,733 and has fallen 81.2% since, to $700 in 2025. Among otolaryngology clinicians in HI 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.

$10,099in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 118 payments — averaging $85.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$3K
Intersect ENT, Inc.$2K
Acclarent, Inc$2K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$885
Medtronic$455
plus $199 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,37043%
Food & beverage$5,72557%
Gifts$40%

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
Smith+Nephew	6	$3,243
Intersect ENT, Inc.	41	$2,234
Acclarent, Inc	41	$1,552
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$1,531
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	14	$885
Medtronic(2 entities)	6	$455
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$125
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$57
Davol 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.

How this compares

$10,099 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 33 otolaryngology providers in Hawaii.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$211,255

Medicare patients

298

Services billed

1,503

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
Budesonide	81	$13,793
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	57	$7,776
Ofloxacin	51	$2,698
Gentamicin Sulfate	45	$2,612
Fluticasone Propionate	111	$1,592
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	58	$1,286
Ipratropium Bromide	19	$679
Omeprazole	30	$631
Azithromycin	51	$402
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	28	$313
Mupirocin	26	$175
Methylprednisolone	11	$90
Cephalexin	11	$72
Oxycodone Hcl	25	$66
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	22	$52

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Honolulu

Charissa KahueHonolulu$55K
Jae LimHonolulu$7K
Seung LeeHonolulu$3K
Krista SchoppyHonolulu$2K
Roland TamHonolulu$1K
Alfred LiuHonolulu$848
Timothy StoddardHonolulu$654
David SchoppyHonolulu$624
Piali DattarayHonolulu$571
Ronald ChockHonolulu$476

See the full list for Hawaii →

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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