Thomas Cha, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Bensalem, PANPI 1700043007
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $236,207 of the $309,055 with a category attached, or 76.4%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 43.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $100,522 and has fallen 52.6% since, to $47,633 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in PA 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 408 payments — averaging $757.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$134K
- Globus Medical$84K
- Kuros Biosciences AG$48K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$22K
- VB Spine LLC$14K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$4K
- plus $3K from 9 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $8461.75 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.
- Carbofix Spine Inc$14K
- Globus Medical$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$236,20776%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,8003%
- Travel & lodging$48,61616%
- Food & beverage$15,4325%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 155 | $134,497 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 151 | $83,929 |
| Kuros Biosciences AG | 3 | $47,693 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 51 | $21,575 |
| VB Spine LLC | 22 | $14,260 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 10 | $4,194 |
| 4web, Inc. | 5 | $1,089 |
| Mirus, LLC | 3 | $785 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 2 | $599 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $127 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $30 |
| GS Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
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.
- MagnetOs$56,074
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$49,042
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$25,926
- XLIF$23,746
- CANYON RETRACTOR SYSTEMS$18,750
- OASYS$18,000
- TLIF$16,848
- AIRO$16,500
- MONTEREY AL$15,375
- Pulse$14,485
- Quartex$11,144
- CAPRI$10,925
- EVEREST XT$10,925
- TRITANIUM$10,011
- Pelvic Screws$7,425
- SERRATO$7,293
- YUKON$7,125
- LATERAL ACCESS SPINAL SYSTEM$7,125
- ESCALATE$3,918
- Other - Miscellaneous$3,914
How this compares
$309,055 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 orthopaedic surgery in Bensalem
- William HozackBensalem$10.6M
- Mark LazarusBensalem$6.4M
- Selene ParekhBensalem$4.5M
- Paul CourtneyBensalem$1.4M
- Jess LonnerBryn Mawr$7.8M
- Gerald WilliamsBryn Mawr$6.8M
- John FenlinPhiladelphia$5.9M
- Peter SharkeyKing Of Prussia$5.7M
- Alexander VaccaroPhiladelphia$4.5M
- Joseph AbboudPhiladelphia$3.9M
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.