Has Ki Hwang, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $146,626 in general payments to Ki Hwang, MD across 263 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 Ki Hwang, 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 Ki Hwang, 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.

Ki Hwang, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Wayne, NJNPI 1205846680

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $110,250 of the $146,626 with a category attached, or 75.2%. Stryker accounts for 89.2% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $47,750 and has fallen 90.8% since, to $4,386 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in NJ 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.

$146,626in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 263 payments — averaging $557.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$131K
Innovasis Inc$7K
Globus Medical$2K
Centinel Spine, LLC$2K
Brainlab, Inc.$1K
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$773
plus $3K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$110,25075%
Travel & lodging$21,34515%
Food & beverage$15,03110%

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
Stryker	163	$130,740
Innovasis Inc	8	$7,289
Globus Medical(2 entities)	26	$2,122
Centinel Spine, LLC	14	$1,858
Brainlab, Inc.	8	$1,236
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	15	$773
Highridge Medical LLC	4	$761
Medtronic(2 entities)	8	$560
Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC	1	$290
Curiteva, Inc.	2	$264
Alphatec Spine, Inc	2	$259
Amgen(2 entities)	3	$174
Zimmer Biomet	1	$94
Augmedics Inc.	1	$52
AstraZeneca	1	$28
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$27
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$22
DJO, LLC	1	$22
Boston Scientific	1	$20
Johnson & Johnson	1	$19
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$15

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

$146,626 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 84 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$102,737

Medicare patients

169

Services billed

431

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	$151

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Wayne

Nikhil SahaiWayne$71K
Colin HarrisWayne$43K
Kumar SinhaWayne$25K
Andrew SawiresWayne$23K
Kristen RadcliffSomers Point$390K
James SanfilippoMoorestown$380K
Justin KubeckToms River$309K
Ramil BhatnagarManasquan$301K
Jason LowensteinMorristown$294K
Steven KirshnerMarlton$226K

See the full list for New Jersey →

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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