Physician Assistant Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Tam Chang

Physician Assistant Worcester, MA Physician Assistant

NPI 1861537458 CMS profile 11081189

456 Park Avenue, Worcester, MA 01610

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General payments

$1,630

83 records reported · program years 2021–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Tam Chang of Worcester, MA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,630 across 83 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 76th percentile of Physician Assistant profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $343 19
2024 General $185 11
2023 General $404 24
2022 General $450 15
2021 General $249 14

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Tam Chang
  • Physician Assistant median
  • Middle half of Physician Assistant
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Tam Chang were reported at $343. Among 68,903 Physician Assistant profiles paid that year, the median was $184 and the middle half received between $57 and $620.

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Year Tam Chang Physician Assistant median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $34 $17–$122 $163
2020 $0 $33 $16–$78 $114
2021 $249 $132 $37–$438 $132
2022 $450 $155 $48–$522 $149
2023 $404 $167 $52–$557 $160
2024 $185 $178 $55–$600 $164
2025 $343 $184 $57–$620 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Gilead Sciences, Inc. $429 18 payments
  2. Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. $361 25 payments
  3. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $182 9 payments
  4. Amarin Pharma Inc. $162 9 payments
  5. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $141 3 payments
  6. Lilly USA, LLC $137 7 payments
  7. Pfizer Inc. $102 5 payments
  8. Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $34 2 payments
  9. Novo Nordisk Inc $31 2 payments
  10. Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $22 1 payment
  11. Other $28 2 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $1,610 82 payments
  2. Education $20 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. GEMTESA $361 25 payments
  2. Vascepa $162 9 payments
  3. SHINGRIX $141 3 payments
  4. PAXLOVID $102 5 payments
  5. JARDIANCE $65 4 payments
  6. FARXIGA $62 3 payments
  7. BREZTRI $61 3 payments
  8. MOUNJARO $57 2 payments
  9. TRULICITY $47 3 payments
  10. VOQUEZNA $34 2 payments
  11. Other $225 13 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 · 207 drugs

Part D claims

33,928

Median for Physician Assistant: 241

Drug cost

$2,212,001

Median for Physician Assistant: $4,110

Branded share of claims

26.4%

Median for Physician Assistant: 19.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 597 $337,189
Trulicity Dulaglutide Brand 303 $291,765
Dapagliflozin Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 257 $139,365
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 211 $134,475
Cyclosporine Generic 279 $104,733
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 175 $102,110
Fluticasone Propionate Hfa Fluticasone Propionate Brand 299 $86,879
Vemlidy Tenofovir Alafenamide Brand 58 $81,129
Icosapent Ethyl Generic 494 $73,890
Lidocaine Generic 801 $56,643

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 207 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 114,276 Part D prescribers listed as Physician Assistant; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 8 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$8,712

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

47

Average age 67

Services billed

155

18 women, 29 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 60%
Diabetes 34%
Heart failure 0%

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 6 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
GEMTESA
  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. $57
$57 58 —
VOQUEZNA
  • Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $34
$34 — —
PAXLOVID
  • PFIZER INC. $31
$31 12 —
RYBELSUS
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $9
$9 — —
Ozempic
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $9
$9 — —

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

83 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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