Christopher Creighton, MD
Pain Medicine · Richardson, TXNPI 1326060468
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 350 payments — averaging $51.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.$3K
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$3K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$2K
- Forte Bio-pharma LLC$560
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$462
- plus $4K from 39 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,62531%
- Speaking & faculty fees$640%
- Travel & lodging$2,88716%
- Food & beverage$9,51152%
- Education$210%
- Gifts$150%
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.
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.
- SACROILIAC JOINT FUSION SYSTEM$3,125
- SIBI System$2,625
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$1,153
- SYNCHROMED$868
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$676
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$543
- INTELLIS$399
- mild Device Kit$369
- Intracept$327
- UBRELVY$235
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$203
- SYNCHROMEDII$189
- ETERNA$150
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$130
- iFuse Implant$128
- AIMOVIG$122
- Lucemyra/Lofexidine$119
- NURTEC ODT$119
How this compares
$18,122 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 54 | $38,554 |
| RelistorMethylnaltrexone Bromide | 15 | $37,203 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 1,111 | $29,405 |
| Buprenorphine | 52 | $11,094 |
| Lidocaine | 57 | $6,769 |
| Pregabalin | 213 | $5,089 |
| Gabapentin | 377 | $4,798 |
| ZtlidoLidocaine | 11 | $4,239 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 425 | $3,759 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 310 | $3,168 |
| Methocarbamol | 185 | $2,269 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 88 | $2,250 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 103 | $2,173 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 50 | $2,009 |
| Buprenorphine Hcl | 33 | $1,773 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Belbuca | $202 | $38,55454 claims |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCRelistor | $223 | $37,20315 claims |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USABuprenorphine, Buprenorphine Hcl, Morphine Sulfate | $21 | $13,763111 claims |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Ztlido | $145 | $4,23911 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
Other pain medicine in Richardson
- Aaron CalodneyTyler$3M
- Mitchell EngleHouston$1.5M
- Melissa MurphyGrapevine$711K
- Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$632K
- Muhammad ZulqarnainDallas$556K
- Daniel PakHouston$460K
- Marvin ChangSugar Land$306K
- David LeimanHouston$281K
- Candice BurnetteSugar Land$265K
- Ellen LinSan Antonio$251K
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.