Joshua Chung, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · West Hollywood, CANPI 1528245644
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 152 payments — averaging $773.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$66K
- Abiomed$36K
- Abbott$12K
- Medtronic$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$184
- plus $350 from 4 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 66 | $65,555 |
| Abiomed | 41 | $36,370 |
| 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
$117,550 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.
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Medicare billing
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
- Pedro CatarinoWest Hollywood$254K
- Andrew BrownleeWest Hollywood$243K
- Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
- Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
- Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$1.4M
- Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$963K
- Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
- Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
- Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$901K
- Michael FischbeinPalo Alto$899K
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.