Christine Kariya, MD
Vascular Surgery · Farmington, CTNPI 1568806024
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Endologix LLC at 43.4% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in CT, where the typical reported total is $7,252.
Across 36 payments — averaging $142.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endologix LLC$2K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$431
- Cook Medical LLC$394
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$188
- Reflow Medical Inc$79
- plus $169 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,50029%
- Travel & lodging$1,09021%
- Food & beverage$2,53049%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Endologix LLC | 9 | $2,221 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 7 | $1,638 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $431 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 7 | $394 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $188 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 1 | $79 |
| Cagent Vascular Inc | 1 | $72 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $49 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$5,120 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 82 vascular surgery providers in Connecticut.
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 vascular surgery in Farmington
- Bing ShueFarmington$49K
- Jeffrey IndesFarmington$13K
- Kwame AmankwahFarmington$6K
- David KullFarmington$4K
- Adam CloudFarmington$3K
- Uwe FischerNew London$941K
- Paul GagneDarien$766K
- Naiem NassiriNew Haven$348K
- Lee GoldsteinStratford$272K
- Mohiuddin CheemaHartford$228K
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.