Nicole Cherng, MD
Surgery · Worcester, MANPI 1366860892
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (42.9%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 65.3% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $13,670 and has fallen 58.7% since, to $5,648 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in MA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 112 payments — averaging $332.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$24K
- Johnson & Johnson$5K
- Medtronic$3K
- Olympus Medical Systems Corporation$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- plus $788 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,08327%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,2133%
- Travel & lodging$6,19717%
- Food & beverage$3,75610%
- Education$16,00043%
- Gifts$300%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 81 | $24,350 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $4,934 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $3,334 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corporation | 1 | $1,710 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $1,159 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $1,003 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 1 | $375 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $48 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$21,924
- Echelon Flex$4,900
- Enseal$4,900
- Harmonic$4,900
- OES CHOLEDOCHOFIBERSCOPE$1,710
- STRATAFIX$1,029
- HARMONIC Product Family$1,029
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$1,029
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$713
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$144
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$133
- AXIOS$125
How this compares
$37,278 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 694 surgery providers in Massachusetts.
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 surgery in Worcester
- Donald CzerniachWorcester$50K
- Richard PeruginiWorcester$21K
- John KellyWorcester$20K
- Michael TarnoffBoston$1.4M
- Omar KudsiBoston$886K
- Philip CohenBrockton$280K
- Ankit MehtaBoston$278K
- Mark ConradMethuen$187K
- James HermenegildoFall River$178K
- Richard EngelmanSpringfield$167K
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.