Christopher Anderson, MD
Pain Medicine · Elizabethtown, KYNPI 1992159040
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,628 of the $5,843 with a category attached, or 62.1%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 53.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,359 and has fallen 72.6% since, to $647 in 2025.
Across 134 payments — averaging $43.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Boston Scientific$664
- Medtronic$442
- AbbVie$371
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$355
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$193
- plus $703 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$962%
- Travel & lodging$2,11936%
- Food & beverage$3,62862%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 68 | $3,114 |
| Boston Scientific | 11 | $664 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $442 |
| AbbVie | 17 | $371 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 3 | $355 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $193 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 3 | $162 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $98 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 3 | $90 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $83 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 4 | $66 |
| Vertex | 2 | $38 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Amgen | 1 | $30 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Stryker | 1 | $16 |
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
$5,843 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 90 pain medicine providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 3,413 | $58,705 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 2,067 | $42,833 |
| Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate | 21 | $14,958 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 25 | $7,279 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 319 | $5,730 |
| Gabapentin | 378 | $4,634 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 129 | $3,059 |
| Pregabalin | 104 | $2,805 |
| Fentanyl | 14 | $1,262 |
| Meloxicam | 18 | $1,086 |
| Pentazocine-Naloxone HclPentazocine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 13 | $912 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 17 | $855 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 56 | $421 |
| Methadone Hcl | 29 | $393 |
| Baclofen | 14 | $334 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Elizabethtown
- Kevin AndresElizabethtown$11K
- Jenna Dismore WrinklesElizabethtown$5K
- Anjum BuxDanville$595K
- Christopher MallardLexington$47K
- Vinod MuniswamyGeorgetown$39K
- John RuxerPaducah$33K
- Timothy BeachamLouisville$31K
- Mazhar RasulLexington$30K
- Tejas ShahAshland$23K
- Lance HoffmanFlorence$22K
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.