Michael Chu, DO
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Atlanta, GANPI 1154718815
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $4,647 of the $7,155 with a category attached, or 64.9%. Medtronic accounts for 69.6% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,666 and has fallen 96.6% since, to $125 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in GA 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.
Across 41 payments — averaging $174.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Stryker$208
- Avanos Medical$198
- Nevro Corp.$134
- Merz North America, Inc.$116
- plus $464 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$4,64765%
- Travel & lodging$5638%
- Food & beverage$1,94527%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 10 | $4,979 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $1,055 |
| Stryker | 3 | $208 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $198 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $134 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Abbott | 2 | $113 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 2 | $87 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $86 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $34 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 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.
- SYNCHROMED$2,336
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$2,311
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$756
- IVS - VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION PRODUCTS$154
- Senza$134
- XEOMIN$116
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$106
- GENERATOR$104
How this compares
$7,155 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 214 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Georgia.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 78 | $848 |
| Pregabalin | 24 | $257 |
| Methylprednisolone | 35 | $191 |
| Naproxen | 13 | $151 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 19 | $144 |
| Meloxicam | 56 | $124 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 17 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Atlanta
- Erik ShawAtlanta$175K
- Abana AzariahAtlanta$22K
- Michael SchaufeleAtlanta$20K
- Gerald BilskyAtlanta$16K
- Malcolm CarsonAtlanta$9K
- Michael YochelsonAtlanta$7K
- Derick DavisAtlanta$6K
- Ashish KhannaAtlanta$6K
- Robert GodsallAtlanta$4K
- Robert MaldonadoAtlanta$4K
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.