Tae Chong, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Aurora, CONPI 1396954186
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 92.3% of the total across 138 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 138 payments — averaging $100.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$2K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- Genentech, Inc.$1K
- Sientra, Inc.$997
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$892
- plus $5K from 14 others
Across 11 payments — averaging $3271.92 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.
- AbbVie$19K
- Axogen$17K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,0658%
- Food & beverage$12,74792%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 37 | $3,108 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 15 | $2,021 |
| Davol Inc. | 9 | $1,088 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $1,065 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 8 | $997 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 11 | $892 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 9 | $597 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 8 | $574 |
| Stryker | 6 | $527 |
| BD | 5 | $512 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 6 | $439 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 5 | $437 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $330 |
| Axogen | 4 | $300 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 4 | $261 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $185 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 2 | $166 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $155 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $115 |
| Vioptix Inc | 1 | $43 |
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.
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$1,078
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$989
- Phasix Mesh$878
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$848
- Kerecis SurgiClose$740
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$659
- NATRELLE$553
- OviTex 2S$550
- ALLODERM$417
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$362
- ARISTA$343
- RECELL$336
- NA$264
- Kerecis GraftGuide$185
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$174
- DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$169
- PERMEADERM$167
- Cohealyx$167
- Matriderm$155
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$150
How this compares
$13,812 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 54 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Colorado.
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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 plastic and reconstructive surgery in Aurora
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- David MathesAurora$103K
- Mark GreysonAurora$26K
- Julian WinocourAurora$24K
- Timothy IrwinAurora$17K
- Jason YuAurora$12K
- Phuong NguyenAurora$12K
- Brooke FrenchAurora$9K
- Aaron MasonAurora$4K
- David KhechoyanAurora$2K
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.