Has Lee Onn Chieng received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $19,950 in general payments to Lee Onn Chieng 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 Lee Onn Chieng 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 Lee Onn Chieng 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.

Lee Onn Chieng

Neurological Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1659899342

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $14,014 of the $19,950 with a category attached, or 70.2%. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.0%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,218, 8.4 times the $982 reported in 2019.

$19,950in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 118 payments — averaging $169.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

VB Spine LLC$3K
Globus Medical$3K
Arthrex$2K
Si-bone, Inc.$2K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$2K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
plus $7K from 18 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$5153%
Travel & lodging$14,01470%
Food & beverage$5,40127%
Education$200%

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
VB Spine LLC	7	$2,992
Globus Medical(2 entities)	9	$2,747
Arthrex	11	$2,190
Si-bone, Inc.	8	$2,126
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	8	$1,719
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$1,535
Medtronic	26	$1,342
Stryker	12	$1,228
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	6	$982
Centinel Spine, LLC	4	$740
BD	3	$515
Johnson & Johnson	4	$509
Boston Scientific	2	$224
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	1	$221
Livanova USA, Inc.	2	$202
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$144
Pinnacle, Inc	1	$130
Augmedics Inc.	1	$94
Aesculap, Inc.	1	$92
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$91
Longeviti Neuro Solutions Inc	1	$70
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$20
CSL Behring	1	$20
Suvon Surgical 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.

How this compares

$19,950 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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