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

Ku Juey Chang

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Lake Forest, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1689611337 CMS profile 211574

23331 El Toro Rd, Suite 102, Lake Forest, CA 92630

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General payments

$366,967

1,267 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Ku Juey Chang of Lake Forest, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $366,967 across 1,267 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 97th percentile of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $34,987 161
2024 General $87,420 222
2023 General $73,529 202
2022 General $45,604 192
2021 General $53,230 178
2020 General $29,519 128
2019 General $42,678 184

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Ku Juey Chang
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism median
  • Middle half of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Ku Juey Chang were reported at $34,987. Among 5,868 Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism profiles paid that year, the median was $507 and the middle half received between $135 and $1,838.

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Year Ku Juey Chang Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism median Middle half National median
2019 $42,678 $494 $123–$2,253 $163
2020 $29,519 $335 $85–$1,841 $114
2021 $53,230 $398 $88–$1,981 $132
2022 $45,604 $364 $88–$1,568 $149
2023 $73,529 $420 $113–$1,614 $160
2024 $87,420 $440 $121–$1,646 $164
2025 $34,987 $507 $135–$1,838 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Lilly USA, LLC $171,633 307 payments
  2. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $157,622 226 payments
  3. Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. $16,242 41 payments
  4. Amgen Inc. $6,741 100 payments
  5. AbbVie, Inc. $2,538 124 payments
  6. CeQur Corporation $2,367 3 payments
  7. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $956 43 payments
  8. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $748 44 payments
  9. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $705 40 payments
  10. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC $665 30 payments
  11. Other $6,750 309 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $327,236 257 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $24,200 920 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $8,640 4 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $6,854 83 payments
  5. Education $38 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. JARDIANCE Diabetes $164,266 228 payments
  2. JARDIANCE Diabetes $119,358 160 payments
  3. JARDIANCE Diabetes $38,163 61 payments
  4. NEXLETOL $16,242 41 payments
  5. NEXLIZET $16,065 30 payments
  6. REPATHA Cardiovascular $3,934 7 payments
  7. CeQur Simplicity $2,367 3 payments
  8. Repatha Cardiology $1,264 58 payments
  9. UBRELVY $1,206 61 payments
  10. SYNTHROID $1,162 54 payments
  11. Other $14,945 707 payments

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

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 63 drugs

Part D claims

3,870

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$1,192,023

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

41.2%

Median for Nephrology: 17.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 326 $334,803
Mounjaro Tirzepatide Brand 195 $227,809
Kerendia Finerenone Brand 185 $159,597
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 108 $85,582
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 59 $72,417
Januvia Sitagliptin Phosphate Brand 59 $52,667
Trulicity Dulaglutide Brand 41 $44,792
Vascepa Icosapent Ethyl Brand 44 $35,130
Synthroid Levothyroxine Sodium Brand 243 $25,193
Janumet Sitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl Brand 17 $20,446

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 63 counted.

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 9,003 Part D prescribers listed as Nephrology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 73 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$423,131

Of which drugs: $2,186

Medicare patients

376

Average age 76

Services billed

22,214

199 women, 177 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%
Chronic kidney disease 56%
Diabetes 51%
Arthritis 45%
Ischemic heart disease 28%
Depression 20%
Osteoporosis 19%
Atrial fibrillation 18%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Influenza vaccine, trivalent derived from cell cultures 90661 Office 60 60 $2,167
Injection, vitamin b-12 cyanocobalamin, up to 1000 mcg J3420 Office 15 21 $20

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.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 26 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
JARDIANCE
$84,449 326 —
KRYSTEXXA
$784 — —
Kerendia
$238 185 —
LEQVIO
$184 — —
UBRELVY
$160 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

1,267 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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

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