Meei Choong, MD
Internal Medicine · Portland, ORNPI 1386644896
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 28 payments — averaging $19.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$131
- AbbVie$124
- Amgen$55
- Boston Scientific$51
- Lilly USA, LLC$48
- Braemar Manufacturing, LLC$24
- plus $110 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$543100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 6 | $131 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $124 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 4 | $55 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $51 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $48 |
| Braemar Manufacturing, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $19 |
| Novartis | 1 | $15 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Gilead | 1 | $14 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$543 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,363 internal medicine providers in Oregon.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tegretol XrCarbamazepine | 11 | $3,070 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 134 | $1,675 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 90 | $1,269 |
| Losartan Potassium | 83 | $1,197 |
| Candesartan Cilexetil | 14 | $933 |
| Pregabalin | 32 | $906 |
| Gabapentin | 47 | $786 |
| Lisinopril | 58 | $557 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 42 | $550 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 53 | $533 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 23 | $527 |
| Ibandronate Sodium | 13 | $502 |
| Potassium Chloride | 20 | $462 |
| Triamterene-HydrochlorothiazidTriamterene/Hydrochlorothiazid | 42 | $455 |
| Methadone Hcl | 11 | $385 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Portland
- Stephen SpurgeonPortland$8.6M
- James BergtholdPortland$4.7M
- Stephen FortmannPortland$3.3M
- Maryann ConradPortland$2.7M
- Jennifer SaultzPortland$1.9M
- Brian BattaliaPortland$524K
- Natasha EdwinPortland$365K
- Michael AzorrPortland$288K
- Charles ElderPortland$245K
- Jessica CastlePortland$153K
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.