Neal Chen, MD
Hand Surgery · Philadelphia, PANPI 1568426526
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by gifts: $18,900 of the $23,832 with a category attached, or 79.3%. AbbVie accounts for 79.3% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $20,897 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $285 in 2025.
Across 22 payments — averaging $1083.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$19K
- Biedermann Motech, Inc.$4K
- Acumed LLC$250
- Trimed, Inc.$124
- Encore Medical, LP$72
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$42
- plus $59 from 2 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $12,534 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Acumed LLC$41K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$9K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,27514%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,1005%
- Food & beverage$5562%
- Gifts$18,90079%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 1 | $18,900 |
| Biedermann Motech, Inc. | 14 | $4,385 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $250 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $72 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $42 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $42 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- NATRELLE$18,900
- Distal Radius Plating System 2.0$4,375
- Distal Humerus Plate$285
- Hand Fracture System$150
How this compares
$23,832 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 110 hand surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 hand surgery in Philadelphia
- Adam StrohlPhiladelphia$175K
- Eon ShinPhiladelphia$44K
- Matthew WilsonPhiladelphia$22K
- Praveen MurthyPhiladelphia$20K
- Brandon BoydPhiladelphia$18K
- Nikolas KazmersPhiladelphia$16K
- Jessica IntraviaPhiladelphia$15K
- Andrew SobelPhiladelphia$12K
- Dana CruzPhiladelphia$7K
- Christopher PinkowskiPhiladelphia$6K
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.