Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Christine Chung

Interventional Cardiology Seattle, WA Medical Doctor

NPI 1972866002 CMS profile 932125

1959 Ne Pacific St., Seattle, WA 98195

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General payments

$209,518

471 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$4,750

Paid to them · 1 record reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$62,486 paid to institutions, not to them · program year 2025

Through program year 2025, Christine Chung of Seattle, WA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $209,518 across 471 general payments and $4,750 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $62,486 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 96th percentile of Interventional Cardiology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $80,126 157
2024 General $79,006 118
2023 General $9,086 58
2022 General $16,114 48
2022 Research $4,750 1
2021 General $2,999 33
2020 General $1,223 14
2019 General $20,964 43

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Christine Chung
  • Interventional Cardiology median
  • Middle half of Interventional Cardiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Christine Chung were reported at $80,126. Among 6,173 Interventional Cardiology profiles paid that year, the median was $1,092 and the middle half received between $366 and $3,019.

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Year Christine Chung Interventional Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $20,964 $1,097 $329–$3,048 $163
2020 $1,223 $473 $161–$1,480 $114
2021 $2,999 $677 $233–$1,827 $132
2022 $16,114 $978 $333–$2,724 $149
2023 $9,086 $1,136 $382–$2,986 $160
2024 $79,006 $1,181 $395–$3,326 $164
2025 $80,126 $1,092 $366–$3,019 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Boston Scientific Corporation $105,921 140 payments
  2. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $29,736 84 payments
  3. Medtronic, Inc. $26,338 92 payments
  4. Abbott Laboratories $19,832 75 payments
  5. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $18,685 11 payments
  6. Ancora Heart, Inc. $4,861 19 payments
  7. Philips Electronics North America Corporation $1,389 12 payments
  8. Abiomed $846 6 payments
  9. HeartFlow, Inc. $499 4 payments
  10. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $293 3 payments
  11. Other $1,117 25 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $70,569 16 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $65,988 32 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $34,159 170 payments
  4. Grant $19,500 2 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $19,302 251 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. WATCHMAN Access System $54,848 56 payments
  2. COREVALVE EVOLUT R $23,173 62 payments
  3. SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA $19,293 26 payments
  4. CoreValve Evolut $18,604 9 payments
  5. WATCHMAN FLX $18,378 17 payments
  6. VersaCross Access Solution $17,347 22 payments
  7. NAVITOR $11,936 12 payments
  8. WATCHMAN $10,584 22 payments
  9. AccuCinch $4,861 19 payments
  10. Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve $3,989 6 payments
  11. Other $20,830 187 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $4,750 1 payment

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 2 drugs

Part D claims

27

Median for Interventional Cardiology: 2,236

Drug cost

$9,518

Median for Interventional Cardiology: $380,412

Branded share of claims

51.9%

Median for Interventional Cardiology: 27.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 14 $9,438
Atorvastatin Calcium Generic 13 $81

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 4,694 Part D prescribers listed as Interventional Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 58 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$142,636

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

291

Average age 75

Services billed

658

119 women, 172 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 57%
Heart failure 52%
Atrial fibrillation 51%
Arthritis 40%
Chronic kidney disease 39%
Diabetes 37%
Osteoporosis 23%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

472 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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