Payment Breakdown by Category
Payments by Nature
| Nature of Payment | Amount | Transactions | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food and Beverage | $10,815 | 388 | 68.7% |
| Travel and Lodging | $4,929 | 20 | 31.3% |
Top Paying Companies
| Company | Total | Records | Latest Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical, Inc. | $10,577 | 317 | $0 (2024) |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | $2,971 | 64 | $0 (2022) |
| Medtronic USA, Inc. | $1,591 | 11 | $0 (2020) |
| UCB, Inc. | $170.60 | 4 | $0 (2024) |
| PORTOLA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. | $132.30 | 1 | $0 (2019) |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | $75.91 | 2 | $0 (2024) |
| Aesculap, Inc. | $69.55 | 3 | $0 (2022) |
| Medtronic, Inc. | $51.56 | 2 | $0 (2022) |
| AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP | $49.80 | 2 | $0 (2024) |
| Nevro Corp. | $34.48 | 1 | $0 (2024) |
Payment History by Year
| Year | Amount | Transactions | Top Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,252 | 48 | Globus Medical, Inc. ($1,035) |
| 2023 | $1,605 | 74 | Globus Medical, Inc. ($1,532) |
| 2022 | $2,327 | 69 | Globus Medical, Inc. ($2,145) |
| 2021 | $5,408 | 112 | Alphatec Spine, Inc ($2,852) |
| 2020 | $1,563 | 9 | Medtronic USA, Inc. ($1,563) |
| 2019 | $1,406 | 47 | Globus Medical, Inc. ($1,253) |
| 2018 | $375.77 | 24 | Globus Medical, Inc. ($302.25) |
| 2017 | $1,807 | 25 | Globus Medical, Inc. ($1,793) |
All Payment Transactions
408 individual payment records from CMS Open Payments — Page 1 of 17
| Date | Company | Product | Nature | Form | Amount | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/19/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System (Device), CREO MIS Stabilization System, IntraLIF | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $28.85 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 10/25/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | CREO Threaded (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $19.68 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 10/24/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | CREO Threaded (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $30.80 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 10/23/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | CREO Threaded (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $21.39 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 10/16/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | Excelsius Deformity (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $10.75 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 10/15/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | Excelsius Deformity (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $45.93 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 10/12/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | CREO Threaded (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $17.59 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 10/11/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | IntraLIF (Device), ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System, CREO MIS Stabilization System | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $27.71 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 10/04/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | CREO Threaded (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $12.97 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 09/29/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | CREO Threaded (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $23.90 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 09/19/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | Hedron C (Device), XTEND | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $18.26 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 09/18/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | CREO Threaded (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $15.55 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 09/17/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | QUARTEX (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $8.15 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 09/12/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | XTEND (Device), QUARTEX | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $21.92 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 09/12/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | QUARTEX (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $19.27 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 09/09/2024 | Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | — | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $62.16 | General |
| 08/30/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | CREO Threaded (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $21.60 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 08/20/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | CREO MIS Stabilization System (Device), ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System, SABLE | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $27.62 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 07/26/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | RISE (Device), ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $20.46 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 07/11/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | SABLE (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $25.62 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 06/28/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System (Device), RISE, CREO MIS Stabilization System | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $11.79 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 06/27/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | QUARTEX (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $22.71 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 05/31/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | QUARTEX (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $22.87 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 05/30/2024 | Globus Medical, Inc. | IntraLIF (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $32.56 | General |
| Category: Spine/Spine Surgery | ||||||
| 05/23/2024 | UCB, Inc. | Briviact (Drug) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $51.70 | General |
| Category: Neurology | ||||||
Medicare Billing by Year
| Year | Procedures | Beneficiaries | Services | Submitted | Medicare Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 10 | 456 | 575 | $528,401 | $98,018 |
| 2022 | 11 | 522 | 703 | $787,747 | $129,879 |
| 2021 | 13 | 515 | 697 | $676,307 | $126,498 |
| 2020 | 12 | 510 | 646 | $581,378 | $109,562 |
All Medicare Procedures & Services
46 procedure records from CMS Medicare Utilization — Page 1 of 2
| HCPCS | Description | Setting | Year | Patients | Services | Charges | Medicare Paid | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99214 | Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes | Office | 2023 | 128 | 176 | $91,168 | $21,073 | 23.1% |
| 99205 | New patient office or other outpatient visit, 60-74 minutes | Office | 2023 | 102 | 102 | $98,940 | $19,980 | 20.2% |
| 22614 | Fusion of additional segment of spine | Facility | 2023 | 13 | 39 | $95,703 | $12,572 | 13.1% |
| 22842 | Placement of stabilizing device to back, 3-6 spine bone segments | Facility | 2023 | 18 | 18 | $87,722 | $11,396 | 13.0% |
| 99215 | Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 40-54 minutes | Office | 2023 | 43 | 59 | $40,828 | $9,668 | 23.7% |
| 22853 | Insertion of cage or mesh device to spine bone and disc space during spine fusion | Facility | 2023 | 17 | 35 | $39,693 | $7,696 | 19.4% |
| 99213 | Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes | Office | 2023 | 64 | 74 | $26,566 | $5,878 | 22.1% |
| 99223 | Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making, if using time, at least 75 minutes | Facility | 2023 | 33 | 34 | $25,717 | $4,963 | 19.3% |
| 99233 | Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 50 minutes | Facility | 2023 | 27 | 27 | $11,711 | $2,829 | 24.2% |
| 69990 | Use of operating microscope | Facility | 2023 | 11 | 11 | $10,353 | $1,964 | 19.0% |
| 22614 | Fusion of additional segment of spine | Facility | 2022 | 22 | 74 | $180,436 | $24,068 | 13.3% |
| 99205 | New patient office or other outpatient visit, 60-74 minutes | Office | 2022 | 100 | 100 | $97,000 | $19,376 | 20.0% |
| 99214 | Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes | Office | 2022 | 100 | 144 | $74,592 | $16,448 | 22.1% |
| 22842 | Placement of stabilizing device to back, 3-6 spine bone segments | Facility | 2022 | 21 | 21 | $104,350 | $13,322 | 12.8% |
| 99215 | Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 40-54 minutes | Office | 2022 | 54 | 79 | $54,668 | $12,837 | 23.5% |
| 99223 | Initial hospital inpatient care per day, typically 70 minutes | Facility | 2022 | 71 | 73 | $53,911 | $12,078 | 22.4% |
| 22600 | Fusion of spine in neck by posterior approach | Facility | 2022 | 17 | 17 | $112,194 | $11,838 | 10.6% |
| 63048 | Partial removal of spine bone with release of spinal cord and/or nerves, each additional segment | Facility | 2022 | 15 | 45 | $56,795 | $7,993 | 14.1% |
| 99213 | Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes | Office | 2022 | 66 | 73 | $26,207 | $6,006 | 22.9% |
| 99233 | Follow-up hospital inpatient care per day, typically 35 minutes | Facility | 2022 | 37 | 50 | $21,331 | $4,382 | 20.5% |
| 99232 | Follow-up hospital inpatient care per day, typically 25 minutes | Facility | 2022 | 19 | 27 | $6,263 | $1,531 | 24.4% |
| 22614 | Fusion of spine bones, posterior or posterolateral approach | Facility | 2021 | 15 | 52 | $112,542 | $17,370 | 15.4% |
| 99205 | New patient outpatient visit, total time 60-74 minutes | Office | 2021 | 84 | 84 | $81,480 | $16,383 | 20.1% |
| 99214 | Established patient outpatient visit, total time 30-39 minutes | Office | 2021 | 81 | 119 | $61,642 | $14,381 | 23.3% |
| 99223 | Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day | Facility | 2021 | 77 | 79 | $56,365 | $13,940 | 24.7% |
About Dr. Terence Chen, MD
Dr. Terence Chen, MD is a Neurological Surgery healthcare provider based in Walnut Creek, California. This provider has been registered with the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) since 09/01/2006. The National Provider Identifier (NPI) number assigned to this provider is 1720180946.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments database, Dr. Terence Chen, MD has received a total of $15,743 in payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, with $1,252 received in 2024. These payments were reported across 408 transactions from 11 companies. The most common payment nature is "Food and Beverage" ($10,815).
As a Medicare-enrolled provider, Chen has provided services to 2,003 Medicare beneficiaries, totaling 2,621 services with total Medicare billing of $463,956. Data is available for 4 years (2020–2023), covering 46 distinct procedure/service records.
Practice Information
- Specialty Neurological Surgery
- Location Walnut Creek, CA
- Active Since 09/01/2006
- Last Updated 01/08/2025
- Taxonomy Code 207T00000X
- Entity Type Individual
- NPI Number 1720180946
Products in Payments
- CREO (Device) $1,703
- O-ARM-ST (Device) $1,578
- Excelsius Robotics System (Device) $1,319
- Spine (Device) $910.40
- Other - Miscellaneous (Device) $874.29
- RISE (Device) $872.43
- QUARTEX (Device) $770.21
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System (Device) $484.95
- FORTIFY (Device) $482.72
- SABLE (Device) $350.18
- RISE-L (Device) $333.74
- ELLIPSE (Device) $330.30
- Biologics (Device) $319.34
- RISE-L . RISE-L A/L (Device) $257.59
- Invictus OPEN (Device) $195.80
- ALTERA (Device) $193.73
- XTEND (Device) $187.91
- ANDEXXA (Biological) $182.10
- Hedron C (Device) $180.38
- OsseoScrew (Device) $170.72
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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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