Philip Ong, MD
Pulmonary Disease · San Antonio, TXNPI 1093965907
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (38.9%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 50.4% of the total. Among pulmonary disease clinicians in TX 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 116 payments — averaging $209.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Pinnacle Biologics, Inc$6K
- Pulmonx Corporation$3K
- Cook Incorporated$2K
- Steris Corporation$233
- Olympus America Inc.$212
- plus $459 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3501%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,82016%
- Travel & lodging$9,43839%
- Food & beverage$4,65319%
- Education$6,00025%
- Gifts$150%
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 | 40 | $12,232 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 25 | $6,185 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 29 | $3,137 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $1,820 |
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $233 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 12 | $212 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $135 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $110 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $80 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $48 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $31 |
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$11,407
- Photofrin$5,234
- CHARTIS CATHETER$1,923
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$1,923
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$1,923
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$1,923
- Melker$1,820
- Pulmonx Endobronchial Valve EBV$783
- TRUFREEZE$233
How this compares
$24,277 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 904 pulmonary disease providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisone | 12 | $89 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pulmonary disease in San Antonio
- Antonio AnzuetoSan Antonio$1.8M
- Diego Maselli CaceresSan Antonio$1.5M
- David MarksSan Antonio$453K
- Rodolfo Estrada AnzuetoSan Antonio$300K
- Ali AbediSan Antonio$269K
- Napoleon Puente CuellarSan Antonio$208K
- Soma JyothulaSan Antonio$129K
- Anoop NambiarSan Antonio$119K
- Nicola HananiaHouston$1.3M
- Juan IribarrenBeaumont$915K
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.