Anne Christopher, MD
Pain Medicine · Chesterfield, MONPI 1598709073
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 930 payments — averaging $1331.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$546K
- Abbott$510K
- Vertex$96K
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$36K
- Si-bone, Inc.$21K
- Biotronik NRO, Inc.$8K
- plus $21K from 21 others
Across 141 payments — averaging $124.74 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Biotronik Inc.$18K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$29,78029%
- Speaking & faculty fees$20,42920%
- Travel & lodging$17,14316%
- Food & beverage$31,80130%
- Gifts$2,5632%
- Entertainment$2,7673%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 222 | $546,405 |
| Abbott | 394 | $510,235 |
| Vertex | 2 | $96,357 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 80 | $35,751 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 33 | $20,739 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 42 | $8,401 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 28 | $5,656 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 39 | $4,464 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 14 | $2,593 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 3 | $2,337 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 15 | $1,420 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 12 | $816 |
| Nevro Corp. | 11 | $797 |
| Seikagaku Corporation | 1 | $708 |
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 11 | $674 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 5 | $342 |
| MML US, Inc. | 4 | $198 |
| Amgen | 1 | $139 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $100 |
| Painteq LLC | 2 | $99 |
| Hydrocision, Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| Stryker | 2 | $75 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 2 | $52 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $47 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- PROCLAIM$22,266
- Intracept$12,402
- Prospera$7,062
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$5,274
- Superion ISS$2,373
- MYOBLOC$2,324
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$1,925
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$1,171
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$1,148
- Evoke$702
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$641
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$600
- ETERNA$537
- Omnia$272
- iFuse Implant$253
- Proclaim IPG$245
- Senza$175
- ReActiv8$163
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$147
- RESTORE$145
How this compares
$1,238,541 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 124 pain medicine providers in Missouri.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 453 | $8,733 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 529 | $4,738 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 140 | $3,908 |
| Pregabalin | 147 | $3,022 |
| Gabapentin | 98 | $1,789 |
| Lidocaine | 17 | $1,162 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 161 | $1,150 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 13 | $839 |
| Cephalexin | 76 | $448 |
| Baclofen | 30 | $317 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 20 | $264 |
| Celecoxib | 26 | $260 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 18 | $250 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 16 | $155 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 12 | $149 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Chesterfield
- Stephen SmithChesterfield$5K
- Travis FoxxLiberty$9.6M
- James ScowcroftLees Summit$1.8M
- Curtis JohnsonKansas City$462K
- Alexander BeyzerSaint Louis$344K
- Benjamin LampertSpringfield$176K
- Christopher ReisCape Girardeau$136K
- Bakul DaveSaint Louis$88K
- Atef IsraelIndependence$70K
- Tyler ConcannonKansas City$64K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.