Vincent Chong
Trauma Surgery · Torrance, CANPI 1477874949
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (53.0%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 73.7% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,592 and has fallen 92.3% since, to $277 in 2025.
Across 60 payments — averaging $78.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$231
- AbbVie$177
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$122
- Solventum Corporation$92
- Teleflex LLC$86
- plus $534 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$190%
- Travel & lodging$89519%
- Food & beverage$1,29928%
- Education$2,50053%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 9 | $3,471 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 6 | $231 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 11 | $177 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $122 |
| Solventum Corporation | 3 | $92 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $86 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $59 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Ceribell, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $55 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $39 |
| Medivance, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 2 | $28 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Activ Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Vioptix Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$864
How this compares
$4,713 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 119 trauma surgery providers in California.
Other trauma surgery in Torrance
- Sebastian SchublOrange$480K
- Antonio CoirinModesto$212K
- Nicole KopariFresno$90K
- Ruby SkinnerSanta Maria$66K
- Jennifer HubbardFresno$26K
- Amber JonesCastro Valley$19K
- Kaushik MukherjeeLoma Linda$19K
- Gudata HinikaParamount$18K
- Rohit SharmaSanta Barbara$17K
- Andrew WangWest Hollywood$16K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.