Christian Bime, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Tucson, AZNPI 1952507279
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $9,400 of the $9,519 with a category attached, or 98.7%. Penumbra, Inc. accounts for 98.7% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest.
Across 3 payments — averaging $3173.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$9K
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$119
Across 45 payments — averaging $3679.01 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.
- AstraZeneca$110K
- Dompe Farmaceutici S.p.a.$56K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,40099%
- Food & beverage$1191%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $9,400 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $119 |
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.
- Indigo$9,400
- AEROmini Stent and Delivery System$119
- BIG60 Inflation device$119
- Elation Balloon Dilator$119
How this compares
$9,519 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 250 pulmonary disease providers in Arizona.
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 pulmonary disease in Tucson
- Abhinav MittalTucson$570K
- Sachin ChaudharyTucson$90K
- Billie BixbyTucson$35K
- Todd LocherTucson$25K
- Ravi ChandranTucson$13K
- James KneplerTucson$12K
- Ubair AhmedTucson$10K
- George ParidesMesa$913K
- Rajat WaliaPhoenix$748K
- Brian PorvinPhoenix$276K
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.