Christopher Dillingham, MD
Hand Surgery · Sarasota, FLNPI 1396763181
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,839 of the $7,014 with a category attached, or 69.0%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 28.5% of the total.
Across 145 payments — averaging $48.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$2K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- MVP Orthopedics Inc$970
- Stryker$465
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$337
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$174
- plus $1K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,00014%
- Food & beverage$4,83969%
- Education$1,17517%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 6 | $2,002 |
| Smith+Nephew | 40 | $1,931 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 21 | $970 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 9 | $465 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 4 | $337 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 14 | $174 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 9 | $160 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $141 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $131 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $121 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $67 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 2 | $67 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $65 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $59 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 6 | $47 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $26 |
| Axogen | 1 | $24 |
| Vertex | 1 | $24 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$7,014 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 173 hand surgery providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 50 | $887 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 17 | $260 |
| Methylprednisolone | 42 | $228 |
| Gabapentin | 27 | $182 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 17 | $136 |
| Prednisone | 40 | $112 |
| Meloxicam | 33 | $105 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 31 | $105 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 12 | $63 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 28 | $58 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Sarasota
- Christopher SforzoSarasota$20K
- Jorge Orbay-CerratoMiami$12.5M
- Peter EvansStuart$525K
- Nirav GuptaOcala$491K
- Francisco RubioMiami$345K
- Justin ZumstegOrlando$133K
- Maria-Carolina Orbay AranMiami$108K
- Paul PatersonVero Beach$104K
- Helen Hui-ChouMiami$95K
- Philipp StreubelWeston$81K
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.