Brian Christie, MD
Plastic Surgery · Madison, WINPI 1811256134
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.0%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Acumed LLC accounts for 66.7% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,737, 5.3 times the $514 reported in 2019.
Across 50 payments — averaging $143.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acumed LLC$5K
- Axogen$458
- Stryker$457
- Smith+Nephew$294
- Johnson & Johnson$228
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$178
- plus $771 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,57522%
- Travel & lodging$1,71524%
- Food & beverage$3,86954%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acumed LLC | 23 | $4,771 |
| Axogen | 5 | $458 |
| Stryker | 3 | $457 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $294 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $228 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $178 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $162 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $115 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $87 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Enduromed, LLC | 2 | $48 |
| Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC | 2 | $34 |
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.
- ACUMED$3,067
- INnate Implant$1,999
- OsteoMed$1,736
- InFrame Implant$1,575
- INTEGRA$451
- Acu-Loc Wrist Plating System$400
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$284
- NA$203
- MAKO$164
- VARIAX$163
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$150
- PRIMATRIX$150
- Total Wrist Fusion Plating System$144
- VersaWrap$139
- EVOS MINI$132
- EVOS WRIST$132
- VLP Mini-MOD$132
- Acu-Loc Wrist Spanning System$130
- Acutrak Headless Compression Screw System$130
- ALLOGRAFT$130
How this compares
$7,159 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 77 plastic surgery providers in Wisconsin.
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.
Other plastic surgery in Madison
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- Katherine RoseMadison$1K
- Nicholas AlbanoMadison$1K
- Peter WirthMadison$1K
- Robert GeorgeMadison$979
- Madeline TierneyMadison$381
- John SiebertMadison$374
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.