Has Christopher Bill, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,782 in general payments to Christopher Bill, MD across 31 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Christopher Bill, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Christopher Bill, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Christopher Bill, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Saint Clair Shores, MINPI 1073962296

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,548 of the $1,782 with a category attached, or 86.9%. It is spread thinly across 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $752 and has fallen 77.9% since, to $166 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in MI, where the typical reported total is $2,071.

$1,782in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $57.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$367
Curonix LLC$361
Vertos Medical, Inc.$216
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$187
Si-bone, Inc.$172
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$125
plus $354 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$23413%
Food & beverage$1,54887%

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
Boston Scientific	10	$367
Curonix LLC	3	$361
Vertos Medical, Inc.	4	$216
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	4	$187
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$172
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$125
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc	1	$117
Sanofi	1	$107
Avanos Medical	1	$32
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$31
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$31
Stryker	1	$22
Bioventus LLC	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.

PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$314
mild Device Kit$144
ANDEXXA$125
DYSPORT$125
Checkpoint Stimulators$117
LUMIZYME$107

How this compares

$1,782 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 88 interventional pain medicine providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$161,694

Medicare patients

436

Services billed

5,395

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	176	$2,340
Pregabalin	95	$1,509
Gabapentin	126	$1,295
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	23	$425
Tramadol Hcl	97	$422
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	22	$371
Methocarbamol	28	$285
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	41	$237
Celecoxib	16	$213
Dexamethasone	36	$211
Methylprednisolone	25	$134
Meloxicam	15	$71
Olanzapine	14	$53
Clonazepam	13	$13

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other interventional pain medicine in Saint Clair Shores

Ryan PollinaSaint Clair Shores$144K
Ariel MajjhooMonroe$124K
Chad BrummettAnn Arbor$109K
Anand ThakurClinton Township$102K
Evan PeskinFlint$72K
Richard FerroLansing$31K
John ChatasAnn Arbor$29K
Bryant IttiaraAllen Park$28K
Fadi DellyWyandotte$25K
Vincent RampersaudFlint$24K

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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.

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