Christian Linz, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Washington, MONPI 1447373899
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 156 payments — averaging $132.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$7K
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$5K
- Arthrex$4K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Heraeus Medical, LLC.$271
- plus $718 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$10,98353%
- Food & beverage$4,77123%
- Education$4,92224%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker(2 entities) | 50 | $7,490 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 18 | $5,143 |
| Arthrex | 30 | $3,998 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 17 | $1,983 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 15 | $1,073 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 4 | $271 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $262 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $252 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $88 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Vertex | 1 | $23 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- MAKO$4,621
- INSIGNIA$1,670
- AMISTEM$1,254
- TRIDENT$817
- Persona Revision$811
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$672
- ACCOLADE$659
- EXETER$497
- RESTORATION$497
- GMK SPHERE$205
- MOTO UNI$176
- TRIATHLON$162
- PALACOS$139
- ACTIS$136
- PICO Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy$125
- MYKNEE$119
How this compares
$20,676 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 455 orthopaedic surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 16 | $4,240 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 329 | $3,365 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 139 | $1,216 |
| Cephalexin | 174 | $557 |
| Cefdinir | 34 | $503 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 72 | $260 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 26 | $242 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 20 | $99 |
| Methylprednisolone | 14 | $93 |
| Hydroxyzine Pamoate | 12 | $66 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 44 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $262 | $4,24016 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 455 orthopaedic surgery providers in Missouri.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Washington
- Jessica BuchmanWashington$71K
- Matthew SmithColumbia$4M
- Jay KeenerSaint Louis$2.2M
- John WatsonSaint Louis$1.7M
- Alexandra StrongN Kansas City$1.1M
- Thomas McCormackKansas City$852K
- Michael SnyderJefferson City$676K
- Peter ChalmersSaint Louis$674K
- Paul FrewinSullivan$630K
- Katherine BurnsBridgeton$491K
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.