Who Paid My Doc
Kuojen Tsao
Pediatric Surgery Houston, TX Medical Doctor
NPI 1720278518 CMS profile 611726
6410 Fannin St, 1400, Houston, TX 77030
General payments
$629
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$5,000
Through program year 2025, Kuojen Tsao of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $629 across 13 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $5,000 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 63rd percentile of Pediatric Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
4 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $35 | 1 | |
| 2024 | General | $196 | 6 | |
| 2023 | General | $380 | 5 | |
| 2022 | General | $18 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Kuojen Tsao
- Pediatric Surgery median
- Middle half of Pediatric Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Kuojen Tsao were reported at $35. Among 513 Pediatric Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $136 and the middle half received between $40 and $362.
Show as a table
| Year | Kuojen Tsao | Pediatric Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $0 | $79 | $25–$162 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $48 | $15–$174 | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $82 | $26–$444 | $132 |
| 2022 | $18 | $101 | $31–$246 | $149 |
| 2023 | $380 | $88 | $31–$277 | $160 |
| 2024 | $196 | $110 | $42–$386 | $164 |
| 2025 | $35 | $136 | $40–$362 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Records
13 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.