Yong Cho
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Boston, MANPI 1083146203
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,200 of the $1,724 with a category attached, or 69.6%. Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. accounts for 69.6% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,242 and has fallen 91.9% since, to $101 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for foot & ankle surgery clinicians in MA, where the typical reported total is $1,627.
Across 19 payments — averaging $90.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.$1K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$132
- Polynovo North America LLC$70
- Smith+Nephew$69
- Next Science LLC$52
- Teleflex LLC$34
- plus $167 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$52430%
- Education$1,20070%
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.
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.
- Zynrelef$125
How this compares
$1,724 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 122 foot & ankle surgery providers in Massachusetts.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clotrimazole | 430 | $12,841 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 365 | $6,392 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 123 | $1,743 |
| WaterWater For Irrigation,sterile | 25 | $1,352 |
| Celecoxib | 18 | $960 |
| Meloxicam | 60 | $312 |
| Methylprednisolone | 48 | $306 |
| Gabapentin | 43 | $207 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 23 | $199 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Boston
- Jaeyoung KimBoston$14K
- Kevin RiemerBoston$5K
- Matthew KnabelBoston$3K
- Machli AdrienBoston$3K
- Harry SchneiderCambridge$174K
- Craig LareauSpringfield$115K
- David SipalaBrighton$94K
- Philip BasileCambridge$90K
- Michael SgangaNatick$90K
- Joseph FleckNorth Chelmsford$35K
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.