Christopher Bannon, MD
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery · Hoover, ALNPI 1063857589
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (54.2%), food and beverage and gifts — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 78.0% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,720, 2.1 times the $836 reported in 2019.
Across 38 payments — averaging $79.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Straumann USA LLC$327
- Kls-martin L.p.$194
- Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc.$84
- Ultradent Products Inc$47
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$17
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,64754%
- Food & beverage$1,14038%
- Education$752%
- Gifts$1776%
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 | 17 | $2,371 |
| Straumann USA LLC | 10 | $327 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 4 | $194 |
| Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc. | 5 | $84 |
| Ultradent Products Inc | 1 | $47 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, 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
$3,039 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 91 oral & maxillofacial surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 149 | $571 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 161 | $537 |
| Ibuprofen | 125 | $363 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 14 | $263 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 22 | $255 |
| Amoxicillin | 45 | $175 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $139 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 65 | $135 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 38 | $116 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $101 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 21 | $82 |
| Meloxicam | 16 | $58 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other oral & maxillofacial surgery in Hoover
- Christopher KahnHoover$960
- Michael KoslinHoover$756
- Patrick LouisBirmingham$38K
- Anthony MorlandtBirmingham$19K
- Michael BabstonMobile$10K
- Sami NizamMontgomery$9K
- Matthew NimmichGadsden$7K
- Christopher RothmanBirmingham$6K
- Christopher MullenixMobile$6K
- John CarlsonTuscaloosa$6K
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.