Christian Ghattas, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Columbus, OHNPI 1447537865
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $246,300 of the $286,407 with a category attached, or 86.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among pulmonary disease clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 290 payments — averaging $987.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$285K
- Cook Incorporated$750
- Pulmonx Corporation$216
- Boston Scientific$184
- Broncus Medical$177
- Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc$161
- plus $126 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$7500%
- Travel & lodging$25,5339%
- Food & beverage$13,8245%
- Education$246,30086%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 279 | $284,793 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $750 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 4 | $216 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $184 |
| Broncus Medical | 1 | $177 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $161 |
| Noah Medical Corporation | 1 | $100 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 1 | $26 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$283,384
- ALIYA SYSTEM$161
- CHARTIS CATHETER$146
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$146
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$146
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$146
- ACQUIRE$118
- DA VINCI SP$117
- GALAXY$100
How this compares
$286,407 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 571 pulmonary disease providers in Ohio.
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 Columbus
- Alberto ReveloColumbus$202K
- James FaganColumbus$179K
- Jeffrey HorowitzColumbus$31K
- Ehab HusseinColumbus$25K
- Joseph KhabbazaAkron$655K
- Robert BaughmanCincinnati$640K
- Kristin HighlandCleveland$551K
- Bruce CorserCincinnati$502K
- Jason StieneckerLima$397K
- Mohammad SheattCincinnati$389K
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.