Christopher Blanchard, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Cumming, GANPI 1942592613
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $202,059 of the $312,009 with a category attached, or 64.8%. Choice Spine, LLC accounts for 92.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in GA 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 97 payments — averaging $3216.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Choice Spine, LLC$288K
- Spineology Inc.$18K
- Globus Medical$3K
- Medtronic$1K
- Camber Spine Technologies LLC$928
- Boston Scientific$398
- plus $1K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$202,05965%
- Consulting fees$91,42529%
- Travel & lodging$16,3535%
- Food & beverage$2,1721%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Choice Spine, LLC | 52 | $288,093 |
| Spineology Inc. | 5 | $17,923 |
| Globus Medical | 13 | $2,616 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $1,030 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 6 | $928 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $398 |
| United Orthopedics LLC | 1 | $378 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $363 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $127 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Abbott | 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.
- Boomerang$196,154
- Tiger Shark C$134,625
- Thunderbolt Minimally Invasive Pedicle Screw Systems$74,279
- TIGERSHARK C$74,148
- TIGERSHARK THTL$68,974
- Tiger Shark$25,634
- Tiger Shark L$23,400
- Harrier SA$16,425
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$16,069
- Stratofuse$13,042
- Thunderbolt$12,600
- Raven$12,600
- Tiger Shark TL$12,600
- Blackhawk Cervical Spacer System$8,036
- Raven Lumbar Plate System$6,805
- VEO Lateral Interbody Fusion System$6,236
- Triton$6,236
- Tomcat Cervical Spinal System$5,400
- Blackhawk Ti$5,005
- TigerShark X$3,150
How this compares
$312,009 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.
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 | 98 | $916 |
| Pregabalin | 23 | $760 |
| Methylprednisolone | 133 | $676 |
| Gabapentin | 51 | $544 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 36 | $447 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 59 | $446 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 76 | $382 |
| Methocarbamol | 60 | $285 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 38 | $199 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 13 | $95 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Cumming
- Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
- George GuildCumming$987K
- David CovallCumming$385K
- Brandon NaylorCumming$156K
- Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.6M
- Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.5M
- John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
- Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
- Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
- Jon MinterAlpharetta$1.2M
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.