Christopher Edwards, MD
Surgery · Springfield, MONPI 1134296569
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $34,000 of the $42,320 with a category attached, or 80.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.6% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $9,130 and has fallen 93.9% since, to $556 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in MO 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 167 payments — averaging $253.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$41K
- Medtronic$430
- Baxter Healthcare$344
- Lilly USA, LLC$51
- TELA Bio, Inc.$49
- Johnson & Johnson$46
- plus $90 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,6524%
- Food & beverage$6,65516%
- Education$34,00080%
- Gifts$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 146 | $41,310 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $430 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $344 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $51 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $46 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $25 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Vertex | 1 | $22 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$34,864
- DAVINCI XI$3,000
- Signia$256
- ENDO GIA ULTRA$139
- TISSEEL$122
- No Related Product$103
How this compares
$42,320 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 612 surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naloxone Hcl | 21 | $1,563 |
| Sucralfate | 21 | $1,539 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 238 | $1,286 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 164 | $1,157 |
| Famotidine | 64 | $615 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 57 | $492 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 17 | $465 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 57 | $264 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Springfield
- Timothy WoodsSpringfield$89K
- Amanda ChelednikSpringfield$17K
- James ScottSaint Louis$307K
- Omar GuerraSaint Louis$249K
- John TannColumbia$216K
- Mark DrakeSaint Louis$212K
- Adeel KhanSaint Louis$204K
- Michael AwadSaint Louis$176K
- Patricia HodginsFenton$145K
- Laurie PunchSaint Louis$141K
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.