Has Joshua Chung, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $68,558 in general payments to Joshua Chung, MD across 119 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 Joshua Chung, 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 Joshua Chung, 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.

Joshua Chung, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · West Hollywood, CANPI 1528245644

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (50.5%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abiomed at 53.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $23,706 and has fallen 68.2% since, to $7,550 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$68,558in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 119 payments — averaging $576.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abiomed$36K
Atricure, Inc.$17K
Abbott$12K
Medtronic$2K
Intuitive Surgical$2K
Edwards Lifesciences$184
plus $350 from 4 others

$48,992in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $1484.60 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.

Atricure, Inc.$49K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$15,00022%
Speaking & faculty fees$34,60050%
Grants$1,5142%
Travel & lodging$11,09016%
Food & beverage$4,8547%
Education$1,5002%

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
Abiomed	41	$36,370
Atricure, Inc.	33	$16,563
Abbott	30	$11,910
Medtronic(2 entities)	4	$1,595
Intuitive Surgical	3	$1,586
Edwards Lifesciences	2	$184
Baxter Healthcare	1	$150
Artivion, Inc.	2	$148
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	2	$36
Teleflex LLC	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.

Impella$35,938
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$9,959
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$8,682
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$7,683
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$7,277
Da Vinci Surgical System$1,500
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$812
ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$639
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$639
DISSECTOR$639
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$422
Epic$165
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$154
FLOSEAL$150
On-X$132
Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$123

How this compares

$68,558 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$148,823

Medicare patients

110

Services billed

315

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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in West Hollywood

Andrew BrownleeWest Hollywood$231K
Pedro CatarinoWest Hollywood$133K
Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$875K
Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$764K
Wilson TsaiWalnut Creek$680K
Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$608K

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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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