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Hao-Hua Wu

Orange, CA. NPI 1518498179. Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine.

What was reported, 2019–2025

$60,738
General payments
203 separate payments. What they were, as CMS records them, is below.
$0
Research payments
Funding for a study, usually paid to an institution with this doctor named on it. Not added to general payments, and not income.
$0
Ownership and investment
The value of a stake this doctor or an immediate family member held.
0
Disputed
This doctor has contested none of the payments reported about them.

How this compares

General payments: $60,738, 2019–⁠2025
By the amount companies reported, ranks 30,270th of 1,688,859 profiles with general payments nationally, 3,733rd of 171,180 in California and 588th of 2,099 in Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine. More than 98% of the 1,688,859 profiles with general payments nationally. It is < 0.1% of the $17,307,111,322 reported nationally.

What the payments were

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General payments to Hao-Hua Wu, 2019–2025, by nature of payment
Nature of paymentAmount
Grant$28,890
Travel and Lodging$16,109
Food and Beverage$12,468
Consulting Fee$1,788
Education$1,183
Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program$300

Each payment as the manufacturer categorized it when reporting it to CMS, across 2019–2025. Together they are the general payments above. A category is the reporter’s, and nothing in the record says a payment in any of them was improper.

By program year

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General and research payments to Hao-Hua Wu, by program year
Program yearGeneralResearch
2025$11,920$0
2024$9,078$0
2023$6,912$0
2022$32,331$0
2021$433$0
2020$64$0

CMS reports a program year at a time and also publishes its own total across them, which is what the figures above are. These rows are that total taken apart, not a second set of payments.

CMS’s file covers 2019–2025. It holds no payments to Hao-Hua Wu in 2019.

The record

National Provider Identifier
1518498179
The identifier this page is addressed by, and the one both CMS files share.
Specialty
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians, in CMS's taxonomy.
Licensed in
CA
The state of the license CMS lists first.
Recipient type
Covered Recipient Physician
How CMS classifies the recipient of these payments.

Medicare prescribing

What this provider billed to Medicare Part D in 2024, as CMS published it. Medicare Part D only: what they prescribed outside it is not here.

461
Claims
Prescriptions and refills billed to Part D, as CMS counts them.
$20,223
Total drug cost
What Part D, the plan and the patient paid together. Not what this provider was paid — they are paid nothing out of it.
185
Beneficiaries
People with at least one prescription from this provider.
Withheld
Brand-name claims
Of the claims above, those for a brand-name drug. CMS withheld this value and marked it "*". It publishes two markers and two reasons — a value between 1 and 10, or one withheld so another cannot be worked out — without saying which marker means which.
457
Generic claims
Of the claims above, those for a generic.
29
Opioid claims
CMS puts this provider's opioid prescribing rate at 6.29067245119306% of their claims. That is their figure, computed from their own unsuppressed data.
not reported
Antibiotic claims
Claims for an antibiotic.
Orthopedic Surgery
Prescriber type
As CMS classifies this prescriber. Credentials: MD.

A blank is not a zero. CMS withholds a value between 1 and 10, and withholds the next lowest alongside it so the first cannot be worked out by subtraction — so a withheld figure is not even evidence that the number was small. Rows for ten or fewer claims are removed from the file altogether, which is why the parts of a total can be withheld while the total is published.

Elsewhere

Data retrieved

Sources

Compiled automatically from Open Payments — payments grouped by physician by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built