Yuen Cheng, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Austin, TXNPI 1841545647
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 465 payments — averaging $33.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$8K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Boston Scientific$701
- Vertiflex, Inc.$431
- Si-bone, Inc.$301
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,98813%
- Food & beverage$12,29279%
- Education$1,2798%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 325 | $8,181 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 12 | $2,135 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 41 | $2,093 |
| Boston Scientific | 27 | $701 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 15 | $431 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $301 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 4 | $196 |
| Curonix LLC | 3 | $192 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 2 | $187 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 3 | $180 |
| Painteq LLC | 5 | $175 |
| Stryker | 1 | $148 |
| GSK | 1 | $122 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $111 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $60 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $44 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $38 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $32 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Novartis | 1 | $21 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 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.
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$1,966
- PROCLAIM$1,283
- SYNCHROMEDII$815
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$699
- Proclaim IPG$647
- ETERNA$447
- Axium INS DRG IPG$445
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$370
- iFuse Implant$251
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$227
- NONE$148
- Superion ISS$143
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$132
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$125
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$123
- BENLYSTA$122
How this compares
$15,558 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 287 interventional pain medicine providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 823 | $24,029 |
| Pregabalin | 218 | $5,361 |
| Gabapentin | 376 | $4,316 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 217 | $4,076 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 322 | $2,994 |
| Methocarbamol | 234 | $2,944 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 242 | $2,604 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 178 | $2,009 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 58 | $1,825 |
| Lidocaine | 16 | $1,728 |
| Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl | 13 | $546 |
| Buprenorphine Hcl | 26 | $533 |
| Celecoxib | 42 | $435 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 24 | $370 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 48 | $326 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Austin
- Genaro GutierrezAustin$1.3M
- Brannon FrankAustin$698K
- Anjuli DesaiAustin$82K
- Paul leAustin$27K
- Martin ThaiAustin$23K
- Clayton AdamsAustin$22K
- Gabor RaczLubbock$3M
- Pankaj MehtaKilleen$2.2M
- Chad StephensSouthlake$1.1M
- Ioannis SkaribasHouston$979K
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.