Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

ARTHUR F CHAU

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery

NPI
1528088622
CMS profile
159538
Location
HOUSTON, TX

General Payments · PY2018–2022

$4,558.06

  • Reported across 48 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2022

$1,501.29

11 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2022 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Travel and Lodging $1,089.80 1
Food and Beverage $411.49 10

By paying entity

PY2022 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Smith & Nephew, Inc. $1,245.79 6
Stryker Corporation $255.50 5

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $1,171.27 5
PY2020 $1,188.72 17
PY2021 $696.78 15
PY2022 $1,501.29 11

Payment records · PY2022 (11)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2022 201820202021 Record-level detail is published for PY2022; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $29.67 02/14/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 960804481 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $43.18 03/07/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 960804489 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $33.99 04/11/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 960804485 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $21.68 04/18/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 960804473 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $27.47 06/04/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 960804477 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $1,089.80 06/15/2022 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 960804493 CMS
Stryker Corporation $32.01 02/24/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 922304827 CMS
Stryker Corporation $43.51 02/26/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 922304835 CMS
Stryker Corporation $46.82 03/23/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 922304843 CMS
Stryker Corporation $120.85 04/08/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 922304849 CMS
Stryker Corporation $12.31 05/09/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 922304855 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2020, 2021, 2022
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2022_P01232026_01102026.csv

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