Christine Ku, DO
Surgery · Blue Springs, MONPI 1679974984
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 556 payments — averaging $19.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Amgen$719
- Incyte Corporation$653
- Johnson & Johnson$648
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$615
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$565
- plus $5K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$110%
- Food & beverage$10,615100%
- Education$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 103 | $2,347 |
| Amgen | 37 | $719 |
| Incyte Corporation | 35 | $653 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 33 | $648 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 40 | $615 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 28 | $565 |
| Novartis | 27 | $564 |
| Pfizer | 34 | $549 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 28 | $539 |
| UCB, Inc. | 28 | $525 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 20 | $498 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 40 | $496 |
| Almirall LLC | 18 | $466 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 19 | $376 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 14 | $244 |
| Sanofi | 8 | $179 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 11 | $166 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 6 | $110 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 5 | $79 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 6 | $76 |
| Organon | 5 | $64 |
| Strata Skin Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $29 |
| Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $18 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Skyrizi$111
How this compares
$10,635 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 612 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clobetasol Propionate | 38 | $1,927 |
| Fluorouracil | 15 | $1,117 |
| Ketoconazole | 82 | $1,067 |
| Tretinoin | 12 | $1,008 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 30 | $900 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 24 | $593 |
| Cephalexin | 126 | $486 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 31 | $312 |
| Hydrocortisone | 34 | $238 |
| Spironolactone | 11 | $78 |
| Prednisone | 15 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Blue Springs
- Tiffany OsbornSaint Louis$493K
- Jeffrey BlatnikSaint Louis$422K
- Varun PuriSaint Louis$346K
- Victor VidalsKansas City$327K
- James ScottSaint Louis$307K
- Andrew WheelerColumbia$298K
- Omar GuerraSaint Louis$249K
- Michael AwadSaint Louis$248K
- Carl FreemanSaint Louis$233K
- John TannColumbia$216K
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.