Sunghee Cho, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Cleveland, OHNPI 1831203777
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $60,789 of the $85,571 with a category attached, or 71.0%. It is spread thinly across 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.6%. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $49,790 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $53 in 2025. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in OH 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 65 payments — averaging $1316.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH$20K
- Daiichi Sankyo Company LTD$19K
- AstraZeneca$15K
- Amgen$12K
- Merck$8K
- Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc$7K
- plus $4K from 7 others
Across 130 payments — averaging $970.00 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.
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$82K
- Novartis$44K
- Amgen$420
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$60,78971%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,86510%
- Travel & lodging$13,82716%
- Food & beverage$1,4382%
- Education$6531%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH | 10 | $20,205 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Company LTD | 3 | $19,305 |
| AstraZeneca | 15 | $14,905 |
| Amgen | 13 | $12,050 |
| Merck | 8 | $8,456 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $7,080 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $3,041 |
| Novartis | 6 | $271 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $127 |
| Novartis Pharma AG | 1 | $72 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Recor Medical Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $7 |
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.
How this compares
$85,571 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 827 cardiovascular disease providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 40 | $49,834 |
| EliquisApixaban | 20 | $19,573 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 19 | $17,091 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 23 | $8,866 |
| Ezetimibe | 89 | $2,630 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 112 | $1,187 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 119 | $1,135 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 60 | $615 |
| Nebivolol Hcl | 12 | $593 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 44 | $569 |
| Losartan Potassium | 43 | $522 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 36 | $472 |
| Valsartan | 16 | $435 |
| Carvedilol | 31 | $330 |
| Nitroglycerin | 27 | $260 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $14,905 | $8,86623 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 95th percentile of 827 cardiovascular disease providers in Ohio.
Other cardiovascular disease in Cleveland
- Guilherme AttizzaniCleveland$1.3M
- Abraham LincoffCleveland$369K
- Oussama WazniCleveland$367K
- Ian NeelandCleveland$329K
- Mazen HannaCleveland$208K
- Brian HoitCleveland$207K
- Steven NissenCleveland$149K
- Daniel CantillonCleveland$140K
- Serge HarbCleveland$134K
- Wael JaberCleveland$124K
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.