Has Simon Chao, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,562,700 in general payments to Simon Chao, MD across 488 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Simon Chao, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Simon Chao, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Simon Chao, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · North Easton, MANPI 1144481532

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,562,700in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 488 payments — averaging $3202.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Republic Spine$878K
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC$287K
Life Spine, Inc.$83K
Surgentec$72K
Captiva Spine Inc$53K
Spinal Elements, Inc.$30K
plus $159K from 42 others

$25,000in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $25,000 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.

Sanara Medtech Inc.$25K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$885,27957%
Consulting fees$607,28539%
Speaking & faculty fees$20,8891%
Travel & lodging$17,0191%
Food & beverage$28,5892%
Education$3,3750%

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
Republic Spine	102	$878,176
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC	15	$286,768
Life Spine, Inc.	64	$83,304
Surgentec	7	$72,409
Captiva Spine Inc	28	$53,410
Spinal Elements, Inc.	33	$29,566
Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus	9	$28,632
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	5	$21,660
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.	4	$20,752
Si-bone, Inc.	36	$18,859
Precision Spine, Inc.	8	$14,608
Integrity Implants Inc.	7	$14,443
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	16	$9,105
Spine Wave, Inc.	11	$6,957
Spineology Inc.	16	$6,265
Globus Medical	12	$2,658
Kairos Surgical Inc	2	$2,415
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	11	$2,208
Curiteva, Inc.	2	$1,808
Zimvie Inc.	10	$1,569
Nexxt Spine LLC	2	$912
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	11	$870
Carlsmed, Inc.	6	$697
Medtronic(2 entities)	8	$687
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	6	$448
Abbott	6	$379
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	17	$349
Boston Scientific	2	$331
Nanohive Medical LLC	2	$266
4web, Inc.	2	$248
Curonix LLC	3	$215
Stryker	2	$175
Lenoss Medical Inc	2	$172
Alphatec Spine, Inc	1	$170
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	3	$166
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	2	$159
Amplify Surgical, Inc.	1	$138
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$133
Augmedics Inc.	1	$110
Nevro Corp.	2	$97
CTL Medical Corporation	2	$94
AbbVie	1	$77
Zimmer Biomet	1	$68
Vertex	2	$65
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	1	$35
Biocomposites Inc	1	$31
Smith+Nephew	1	$22
Misonix Inc	1	$11

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.

POSTERIOR CERVICAL$243,310
Dark Star$212,377
Dark Star MIS$102,811
Dark Star Pedicle Screw System$80,208
Expandable Interbody System$75,083
EquiLOX$42,924
Osteoflo$37,288
FlareHawk$35,270
CENTRIC - T RETRACTOR$29,823
Hydroputty$28,622
KARMA$26,000
Dyna-Link Ti Barbs$22,736
Magellan$21,501
ProLift$20,572
iFuse Implant$17,962
ProLift Micro$14,855
ProLift Lateral Helo$14,666
SURE-LOK PERCUTANEOUS PEDICLE SCREW SYSTEM$14,608
ProLift Lateral Fixated$13,573
ProLift Micro Tube Access$11,760

How this compares

$1,562,700 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 542 orthopaedic surgery providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$659,866

Medicare patients

911

Services billed

5,101

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
Methylprednisolone	240	$1,864
Gabapentin	37	$414
Duloxetine Hcl	15	$267
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	18	$210
Mupirocin	14	$82

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in North Easton

Jason FanueleNorth Easton$227K
Paul TornettaBoston$16.7M
Thomas ThornhillBoston$12M
Stephen MurphyRoxbury Crossing$8M
Andrew FreibergBoston$5.9M
Jon WarnerBoston$5.5M
Wolfgang FitzBoston$3.7M
Young Min KwonBoston$2.8M
Brian KwonWaltham$1.9M
Scott SigmanNorth Chelmsford$1.4M

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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.

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