Has Christian Ricks, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,184 in general payments to Christian Ricks, MD across 33 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Christian Ricks, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Christian Ricks, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Christian Ricks, MD

Neurological Surgery · Albuquerque, NMNPI 1548522063

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $10,000 of the $12,184 with a category attached, or 82.1%. Stryker accounts for 87.3% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $6,000 and has fallen 93.0% since, to $417 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in NM with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$12,184in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $369.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$11K
Globus Medical$1K
Si-bone, Inc.$177
Medtronic$19

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$10,00082%
Travel & lodging$9147%
Food & beverage$1,27110%

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	13	$10,642
Globus Medical(2 entities)	15	$1,346
Si-bone, Inc.	4	$177
Medtronic	1	$19

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.

How this compares

$12,184 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 32 neurological surgery providers in New Mexico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$158,445

Medicare patients

160

Services billed

375

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.

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Michael KoganAlbuquerque$10K
Peter ShinAlbuquerque$8K
Ross GreenAlbuquerque$6K
Mark ErasmusAlbuquerque$5K
Mark BryniarskiAlbuquerque$4K
Michael Ortiz TorresAlbuquerque$4K
Carlos AlvarezAlbuquerque$4K
James BotrosAlbuquerque$3K

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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.

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