Total Payments
$8,354
2024 Payments
$171.42
Companies
10
Transactions
80
Medicare Patients
63
Medicare Billing
$33,542

Payment Breakdown by Category

Travel$4,516 (54.1%)
Food & Beverage$3,838 (45.9%)

Payments by Nature

Nature of Payment Amount Transactions Share
Travel and Lodging $4,516 20 54.1%
Food and Beverage $3,838 60 45.9%

Top Paying Companies

Company Total Records Latest Year
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $4,839 42 $0 (2020)
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $2,138 14 $0 (2024)
LivaNova USA, Inc. $699.34 11 $0 (2019)
Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $316.01 4 $0 (2018)
Medtronic, Inc. $152.40 1 $0 (2024)
Abbott Laboratories $94.92 4 $0 (2018)
AngioDynamics, Inc. $39.90 1 $0 (2021)
Cyberonics, Inc. $31.41 1 $0 (2017)
ABIOMED $22.21 1 $0 (2022)
Maquet Cardiovascular U.S. Sales, L.L.C. $20.27 1 $0 (2019)

Payment History by Year

Year Amount Transactions Top Company
2024 $171.42 2 Medtronic, Inc. ($152.40)
2023 $135.49 1 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation ($135.49)
2022 $49.22 2 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation ($27.01)
2021 $39.90 1 AngioDynamics, Inc. ($39.90)
2020 $950.01 2 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. ($950.01)
2019 $1,043 16 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. ($481.63)
2018 $3,890 42 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. ($3,407)
2017 $2,075 14 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation ($1,608)

All Payment Transactions

80 individual payment records from CMS Open Payments — Page 1 of 4

Date Company Product Nature Form Amount Type
11/21/2024 Medtronic, Inc. COREVALVE EVOLUT R (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $152.40 General
Category: Transcatheter Valve Systems
01/18/2024 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVE (THV) (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $19.02 General
Category: Transcatheter Heart Valves
05/05/2023 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $135.49 General
Category: Pericardial Heart Valves
10/05/2022 ABIOMED Impella (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $22.21 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
06/15/2022 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $27.01 General
07/01/2021 AngioDynamics, Inc. NanoKnife (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $39.90 General
Category: OS
04/15/2020 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Travel and Lodging Cash or cash equivalent $896.01 General
Category: SURGERY
03/25/2020 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Travel and Lodging Cash or cash equivalent $54.00 General
Category: SURGERY
11/26/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $125.59 General
Category: SURGERY
11/26/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $41.00 General
Category: SURGERY
10/24/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $24.25 General
Category: SURGERY
10/24/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $14.21 General
Category: SURGERY
10/24/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $9.88 General
Category: SURGERY
09/12/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $109.24 General
Category: SURGERY
07/10/2019 LivaNova USA, Inc. Perceval (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $95.93 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
04/12/2019 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $140.84 General
Category: Pericardial Heart Valves
03/27/2019 LivaNova USA, Inc. Perceval (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $22.67 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
02/25/2019 LivaNova USA, Inc. CONNECT (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $72.14 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
02/08/2019 LivaNova USA, Inc. Perceval (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $19.50 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
01/29/2019 LivaNova USA, Inc. Perceval (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $124.00 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
01/29/2019 LivaNova USA, Inc. Perceval (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $28.76 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
01/27/2019 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $37.25 General
Category: Pericardial Heart Valves
01/17/2019 Maquet Cardiovascular U.S. Sales, L.L.C. CARDIOHELP (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $20.27 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
01/04/2019 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $157.46 General
Category: SURGERY
10/24/2018 Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $201.42 General
Category: SURGERY

Medicare Billing by Year

Year Procedures Beneficiaries Services Submitted Medicare Paid
2023 4 63 63 $155,670 $33,542
Total Patients
63
Total Services
63
Medicare Billing
$33,542
Procedure Codes
4

All Medicare Procedures & Services

4 procedure records from CMS Medicare Utilization

HCPCS Description Setting Year Patients Services Charges Medicare Paid Ratio
33533 Coronary artery bypass using artery graft, 1 graft Facility 2023 19 19 $132,050 $27,865 21.1%
33518 Coronary artery bypass using vein or artery graft, 2 grafts Facility 2023 14 14 $19,180 $4,562 23.8%
93314 Interpretation and report of ultrasound of heart Facility 2023 12 12 $3,360 $884.64 26.3%
33508 Harvest of vein using an endoscope Facility 2023 18 18 $1,080 $230.22 21.3%

About Dr. John Chen, MD

Dr. John Chen, MD is a Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) healthcare provider based in Los Angeles, California. This provider has been registered with the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) since 10/09/2006. The National Provider Identifier (NPI) number assigned to this provider is 1902993058.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments database, Dr. John Chen, MD has received a total of $8,354 in payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, with $171.42 received in 2024. These payments were reported across 80 transactions from 10 companies. The most common payment nature is "Travel and Lodging" ($4,516).

As a Medicare-enrolled provider, Chen has provided services to 63 Medicare beneficiaries, totaling 63 services with total Medicare billing of $33,542. Data is available for 1 year (2023–2023), covering 4 distinct procedure/service records.

Practice Information

  • Specialty Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)
  • Other Specialties Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)
  • Location Los Angeles, CA
  • Active Since 10/09/2006
  • Last Updated 10/12/2022
  • Taxonomy Code 208G00000X
  • Entity Type Individual
  • NPI Number 1902993058

Products in Payments

  • Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) $4,839
  • EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system (Device) $531.97
  • Aortic Tissue Valve - Perceval (Device) $367.75
  • Perceval (Device) $290.86
  • Mosaic (Device) $162.95
  • CoreValve Evolut (Device) $153.06
  • COREVALVE EVOLUT R (Device) $152.40
  • MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve (Device) $135.49
  • CONNECT (Device) $72.14
  • NanoKnife (Device) $39.90
  • Aortic and Mitral Mechanical Valves (Device) $39.40
  • INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve (Device) $37.25
  • Regent Mechanical Heart Valve (Device) $34.50
  • Impella (Device) $22.21
  • Aortic and Mitral Tissue Stented (Device) $21.02
  • CARDIOHELP (Device) $20.27
  • EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVE (THV) (Device) $19.02

Data Sources

Provider data from NPPES. Payment data from CMS Open Payments. Medicare data from CMS Medicare Provider Utilization. All data is public and updated periodically.

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