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Dr. Samuel Kang-Wook Cho, MD

Individual provider Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1538318209

Dr. Samuel Kang-Wook Cho, MD practises Orthopedic Surgery in New York, New York. Qualified in 2004, 22 years ago. Practices with Rehabilitation Associates Inc, a 532-clinician group, accepts Medicare assignment and offers telehealth. Licensed in New York.

Years since qualifying
22
Licensed in
NY
In the registry since
2008
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

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Practice location Address checks out

622 W 168th St PH-11
New York, NY 10032-3720 Not confirmed with CMS for 18 years — call before visiting
Phone: (314) 322-9236
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Specialties & licences

Orthopaedic Surgery Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207X00000X · Licence 238595 (NY)

Record details

NPI number1538318209
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorYes
NPI enumeratedSeptember 17, 2008
Last updated in NPPESSeptember 17, 2008

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyORTHOPEDIC SURGERY
Medical schoolOTHER
Graduated 2004 (22 years in practice)
Group practice Rehabilitation Associates Inc — 532 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
TelehealthOffers telehealth services
Practice locations2 on file with Medicare

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Laminectomy or laminotomy (partial removal of spine bones) 67 times · 85th percentile
Spinal fusion 149 times · 84th percentile

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients266
Services billed 1,327 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age74

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Compensation for services other than consulting , including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $31,763 8 payments
Royalty or License $25,631 8 payments · paid for the use of something the clinician owns or invented, such as a patent; not a fee for care or for time
Consulting Fee $13,875 2 payments
Travel and Lodging $12,149 17 payments · travel or lodging paid or reimbursed, such as to attend a conference
Food and Beverage $2,581 36 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

Colleagues at Rehabilitation Associates Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 532 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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