Tan Chen, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Wilkes Barre, PANPI 1528603370
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (54.9%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 41.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $12,696 and has fallen 84.4% since, to $1,983 in 2025.
Across 88 payments — averaging $343.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$13K
- Cerapedics Inc.$9K
- Globus Medical$7K
- Si-bone, Inc.$979
- Arthrex$462
- Novus Surgical Consultants$276
- plus $450 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,60055%
- Travel & lodging$10,82136%
- Food & beverage$2,7349%
- Education$990%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 45 | $12,530 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 3 | $8,599 |
| Globus Medical | 21 | $6,956 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 9 | $979 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $462 |
| Novus Surgical Consultants | 3 | $276 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Stryker | 2 | $119 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $94 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 1 | $93 |
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.
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$9,913
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$8,500
- ALTERA$2,284
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,134
- FORTIFY$781
- CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$746
- EXCELSIUS$671
- Excelsius - GPS$575
- CLYDESDALE$554
- ELSA ATP$458
- CREO$458
- RISE$279
- UNID_PASS$149
- Phasix Mesh$144
- TLIF$140
- SPACE-D SYSTEM 5.5/6.0 VOYAGER INSTRUMENT SET$123
How this compares
$30,253 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 43 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Pennsylvania.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $64 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 11 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Wilkes Barre
- Alan HilibrandBensalem$1.4M
- Joel TorrettiState College$1.1M
- Gregory BaileyState College$1.1M
- David AndersonBensalem$786K
- Jeffrey McConnellAllentown$509K
- Christopher HendersonDickson City$222K
- Joshua PahysPhiladelphia$213K
- David CasperPhiladelphia$195K
- Scott RushtonWynnewood$93K
- Eric EmanskiState College$88K
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.