Christopher Battista, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · North Charleston, SCNPI 1114345626
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (46.2%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 81.0% of it on its own, with 26 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in SC 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 302 payments — averaging $191.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$47K
- Medtronic$3K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$1K
- Stryker$405
- plus $3K from 21 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $8460.00 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.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$8K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$26,67546%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,6758%
- Grants$1,0002%
- Travel & lodging$11,33120%
- Food & beverage$13,86524%
- Education$2040%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 138 | $46,770 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 33 | $2,807 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 10 | $2,365 |
| Abbott | 56 | $1,580 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 16 | $1,316 |
| Stryker | 5 | $405 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 3 | $342 |
| Painteq LLC | 5 | $295 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $286 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 6 | $284 |
| Amgen | 3 | $234 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $204 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $137 |
| Axogen | 1 | $122 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $111 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $91 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $49 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $34 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $27 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- ALIF$12,075
- XLIF$8,665
- EXCELSIUS$5,296
- CREO MCS, Fenestrated, Sideloading$2,296
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,581
- MARS 3V/3VL$1,512
- ELSA$814
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$597
- Excelsius - GPS$552
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$404
- Vu aPOD Prime NanoMetalene$351
- ELSA, ELSA AL/ATP$341
- Mariner$331
- PROCLAIM$327
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$296
- Shoreline ACS$295
- RISE$290
- Sable$290
- ALTERA$274
- MARS$264
How this compares
$57,751 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 325 orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 103 | $1,308 |
| Gabapentin | 79 | $754 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 59 | $395 |
| Methylprednisolone | 55 | $301 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 24 | $255 |
| Celecoxib | 14 | $183 |
| Methocarbamol | 24 | $135 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 24 | $87 |
| Diazepam | 79 | $79 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 17 | $66 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $14 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in North Charleston
- Todd LansfordNorth Charleston$286K
- Daniel SullivanNorth Charleston$22K
- William SmithColumbia$7.7M
- Richard FrischMt Pleasant$1M
- Brent PonceCharleston$874K
- Chi LimSpartanburg$320K
- Nicholas GrimaldiColumbia$203K
- Richard MarksWest Columbia$176K
- James LogingClinton$118K
- Justin SmithRock Hill$102K
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.