Who Paid My Doc
Joseph Cheng
Neurological Surgery Cincinnati, OH Medical Doctor
NPI 1073697173 CMS profile 1134229
222 Piedmont Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45219
General payments
$58,147
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$50,269
Through program year 2025, Joseph Cheng of Cincinnati, OH is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $58,147 across 101 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $50,269 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 87th percentile of Neurological Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
6 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $13,799 | 25 | |
| 2024 | General | $11,182 | 19 | |
| 2023 | General | $10,431 | 20 | |
| 2022 | General | $7,618 | 13 | |
| 2021 | General | $9,937 | 14 | |
| 2019 | General | $5,181 | 10 |
Beside peers
- Joseph Cheng
- Neurological Surgery median
- Middle half of Neurological Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Joseph Cheng were reported at $13,799. Among 5,467 Neurological Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $596 and the middle half received between $159 and $3,102.
Show as a table
| Year | Joseph Cheng | Neurological Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $5,181 | $582 | $138–$3,006 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $294 | $76–$2,174 | $114 |
| 2021 | $9,937 | $387 | $105–$2,432 | $132 |
| 2022 | $7,618 | $542 | $139–$2,989 | $149 |
| 2023 | $10,431 | $534 | $145–$2,697 | $160 |
| 2024 | $11,182 | $574 | $155–$3,046 | $164 |
| 2025 | $13,799 | $596 | $159–$3,102 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 63 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$165,761
Medicare patients
151
Services billed
583
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 32% | |
| Depression | 28% | |
| Diabetes | 27% | |
| Osteoporosis | 26% | |
| COPD | 21% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 19% |
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
101 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
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.