Soung Ick Cho, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Fair Lawn, NJNPI 1801044557
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 168 payments — averaging $25.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$912
- Merck$779
- Abbott$694
- Novartis$436
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$328
- Medtronic$320
- plus $863 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,28799%
- Education$431%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 11 | $912 |
| Merck | 50 | $779 |
| Abbott | 7 | $694 |
| Novartis | 30 | $436 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 20 | $328 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $320 |
| Pfizer | 12 | $184 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Bayer | 6 | $116 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $109 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Amgen | 4 | $57 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $31 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $31 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $28 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- AMPLATZER Occluders$330
- OPTIMIZER$238
- Watchman$230
- Claria MRI$155
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$148
- CDS broad portfolio offering$147
- WATCHMAN Access System$147
- Polaris Ultra$144
- MitraClip$142
- HeartMate$125
How this compares
$4,331 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 449 | $558,762 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 183 | $242,657 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 128 | $106,033 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 73 | $69,106 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 94 | $66,649 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 45 | $53,410 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 33 | $38,969 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 1,118 | $22,597 |
| Repatha PushtronexEvolocumab | 34 | $20,419 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 44 | $20,311 |
| VerquvoVericiguat | 16 | $20,134 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 1,624 | $20,105 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 21 | $18,451 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 1,193 | $16,366 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 17 | $15,710 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $184 | $558,762449 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $436 | $242,657183 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $31 | $106,033128 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga | $15 | $84,81690 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $109 | $38,96933 claims |
| MerckVerquvo, Januvia | $779 | $33,33331 claims |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbyclor | $26 | $11,56316 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $28 | $10,23111 claims |
| AmgenCorlanor | $57 | $9,15117 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.
Other cardiovascular disease in Fair Lawn
- Marcus WilliamsFair Lawn$273K
- Robert KippermanMorristown$5.3M
- Sharan MahalBridgewater$3.5M
- Linda GillamMorristown$2.2M
- Mark GelerntHaddon Heights$2M
- Robert FishbergSpringfield$1.9M
- Dilip ViswanathHaddon Heights$1.8M
- Marc CohenNewark$1M
- Jasjit WaliaElizabeth$859K
- Sajjad SabirCamden$742K
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.