Veronica Chiang, MD
Neurological Surgery · New Haven, CTNPI 1073594487
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $25,150 of the $40,288 with a category attached, or 62.4%. Monteris Medical Corporation accounts for 77.1% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 74 payments — averaging $544.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Monteris Medical Corporation$31K
- Elekta Instrument AB$7K
- Brainlab, Inc.$1K
- Clearpoint Neuro, Inc.$290
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$222
- Medtronic$112
- plus $153 from 2 others
Across 55 payments — averaging $2905.55 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.
- Monteris Medical Corporation$160K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$25,15062%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,0002%
- Travel & lodging$11,68629%
- Food & beverage$2,4526%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 59 | $31,062 |
| Elekta Instrument AB | 5 | $7,449 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 1 | $1,000 |
| Clearpoint Neuro, Inc. | 3 | $290 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 3 | $222 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $112 |
| Zap Surgical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
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.
- Neuroblate$30,186
- LEKSELL GAMMA KNIFE ICON$7,195
- Image Guided Surgical Device$1,000
- ClearPoint System$128
- VISUALASE$112
- CLEARPOINT$105
- Zap-X$104
How this compares
$40,288 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 94 neurological surgery providers in Connecticut.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Levetiracetam | 36 | $640 |
| Dexamethasone | 20 | $229 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in New Haven
- Murat GunelNew Haven$839K
- Pedro de Oliveira CoutinhoNew Haven$129K
- Ehud MendelNew Haven$120K
- Charles MatoukNew Haven$114K
- Ryan HebertNew Haven$82K
- Mihir GuptaNew Haven$78K
- Khalid AbbedNew Haven$58K
- Jacky YeungNew Haven$50K
- Luis KolbNew Haven$24K
- Dennis SpencerNew Haven$16K
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.