Christian Pothering, MD
Vascular Surgery · Allentown, PANPI 1093197741
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 31 payments — averaging $82.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$573
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$433
- Endologix LLC$336
- Inari Medical, Inc.$191
- Stryker$187
- Medtronic$166
- plus $673 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2359%
- Food & beverage$2,20386%
- Education$1215%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $573 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 3 | $433 |
| Endologix LLC | 4 | $336 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $191 |
| Stryker | 2 | $187 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $166 |
| Abbott | 2 | $140 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $108 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Humacyte Global, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $24 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$551
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$433
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$359
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$359
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$235
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$175
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$175
- Penumbra System$138
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$134
- ACTIVAC$124
- Endurant$121
- JETi All In One Non-Sterile Kit$119
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$119
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$110
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$108
How this compares
$2,559 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 236 vascular surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 25 | $199 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $77 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 32 | $77 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 20 | $50 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Allentown
- Benjamin JacksonAllentown$99K
- Mila JuAllentown$36K
- Michael QaqishAllentown$15K
- Darren SchneiderPhiladelphia$1M
- Nathan LiangPittsburgh$551K
- Elizabeth GenovesePhiladelphia$475K
- Shang LohPhiladelphia$350K
- Meghan DermodyLancaster$321K
- Paul FoleyDoylestown$257K
- Michel MakarounPittsburgh$241K
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.