Has Yijia Chu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $88,436 in general payments to Yijia Chu, MD across 283 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Yijia Chu, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Yijia Chu, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Yijia Chu, MD

Pain Medicine · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1538487673

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.8%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 52.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $31,221, 5.0 times the $6,280 reported in 2019. Among pain medicine clinicians in MI 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.

$88,436in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 283 payments — averaging $312.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$47K
Boston Scientific$38K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$985
Vertos Medical, Inc.$955
Stryker$669
Medtronic$364
plus $461 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$31,41836%
Speaking & faculty fees$37,84443%
Travel & lodging$10,76012%
Food & beverage$8,3349%
Education$810%

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
Abbott	146	$46,697
Boston Scientific	96	$38,305
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	10	$985
Vertos Medical, Inc.	6	$955
Stryker	8	$669
Medtronic	9	$364
Nevro Corp.	2	$204
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$104
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$50
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$32
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc	1	$30
MML US, Inc.	1	$26
Vertex	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.

How this compares

$88,436 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 139 pain medicine providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$234,498

Medicare patients

175

Services billed

15,184

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	39	$298
Gabapentin	12	$155
Duloxetine Hcl	14	$145
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	23	$98
Cephalexin	23	$65
Oxycodone Hcl	11	$64

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Grand Rapids

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Adam PowellGrand Rapids$5K
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Kevin NemethGrand Rapids$5K
Carl HinshawGrand Rapids$3K
Daniel VeldheerGrand Rapids$3K
Harry SukumaranRochester Hills$304K
Nasir KhatriFlint$133K

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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.

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