Christopher Gartin, MD
Surgery · Fremont, NENPI 1780948919
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 31 payments — averaging $89.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$331
- Davol Inc.$288
- Kerecis Limited$123
- Hydrofera LLC$64
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$63
- plus $150 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,15742%
- Food & beverage$1,31447%
- Education$31511%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 6 | $1,766 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $331 |
| Davol Inc. | 8 | $288 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $123 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 3 | $64 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $40 |
| BD | 1 | $36 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $32 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 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.
- 1788$874
- 1688$589
- Da Vinci Surgical System$315
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$303
- PHASIX$119
How this compares
$2,785 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 197 surgery providers in Nebraska.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 23 | $405 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 18 | $136 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 18 | $73 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Fremont
- Shaheed MeraniOmaha$563K
- Dmitry OleynikovOmaha$192K
- Benjamin HungLincoln$75K
- Gary AnthoneOmaha$74K
- David MercerOmaha$67K
- Jason WalshKearney$58K
- Vishal KothariOmaha$42K
- Moriah WrightOmaha$37K
- Andy YangOmaha$36K
- Matthew WheelerBellevue$32K
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.