Has Zao Yang, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,445 in general payments to Zao Yang, MD across 56 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 Zao Yang, 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 Zao Yang, 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.

Zao Yang, MD

Otolaryngology · San Antonio, TXNPI 1497174528

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,445in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 56 payments — averaging $132.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Steris Corporation$2K
US Endoscopy$2K
Amgen$1K
Johnson & Johnson$705
Olympus America Inc.$397
Boston Scientific$162
plus $366 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3,60048%
Travel & lodging$99713%
Food & beverage$2,84838%

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
Steris Corporation	12	$2,214
US Endoscopy	4	$2,150
Amgen	1	$1,450
Johnson & Johnson	23	$705
Olympus America Inc.	8	$397
Boston Scientific	1	$162
Medtronic	1	$157
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc	1	$78
Cook Medical LLC	1	$37
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$30
Pentax Of America, Inc.	1	$27
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$24
Shire North American Group 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.

How this compares

$7,445 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 729 otolaryngology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$154,911

Medicare patients

241

Services billed

1,465

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
Pantoprazole Sodium	22	$109
Methylprednisolone	12	$82
Fluticasone Propionate	12	$69

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in San Antonio

Jeffrey RosenbloomSan Antonio$720K
Philip ChenSan Antonio$325K
Nathan HalesSan Antonio$226K
James AtkinsSan Antonio$205K
Laurence ChuAustin$37.4M
Mark ZafereoHouston$7.8M
Neil GrossHouston$1.5M
Chad McDuffieFrisco$1.5M
Ian AlexanderBoerne$999K
Stephen LaiHouston$968K

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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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