Christoph Hornik
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine · Durham, NCNPI 1528231974
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $22,220 of the $22,220 with a category attached, or 100.0%. 4 manufacturers reported payments, led by UCB Biosciences Inc. at 44.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $9,840 and has fallen 89.8% since, to $1,000 in 2024. Among pediatric critical care medicine clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 10 payments — averaging $2222.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- UCB Biosciences Inc.$10K
- Purdue Pharma L.p.$9K
- USWM, LLC$3K
- UCB SA$500
Across 5 payments — averaging $259,798 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pfizer$1.2M
- Purdue Pharma L.p.$52K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$22,220100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| UCB Biosciences Inc. | 4 | $9,840 |
| Purdue Pharma L.p. | 2 | $8,880 |
| USWM, LLC | 3 | $3,000 |
| UCB SA | 1 | $500 |
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.
- HYSINGLA ER$8,880
- LUCEMYRA$3,000
- Vimpat$500
How this compares
$22,220 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 35 pediatric critical care medicine providers in North Carolina.
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Other pediatric critical care medicine in Durham
- Ira CheifetzDurham$9K
- Jennifer SherwinDurham$3K
- Caroline OzmentDurham$3K
- Karan KumarDurham$2K
- Jon MelionesDurham$704
- David TurnerDurham$413
- Elizabeth BonnerDurham$120
- Kyle RehderDurham$76
- Vinod PrasadDurham$53
- Stephen LeinenweberDurham$13
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.