Christopher Glaser, MD
Surgery · Owensboro, KYNPI 1053311621
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 98 payments — averaging $23.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$333
- Medtronic$287
- Solventum Corporation$184
- Davol Inc.$169
- Covidien LP$168
- TELA Bio, Inc.$138
- plus $985 from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,20197%
- Education$633%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 17 | $333 |
| Medtronic | 13 | $287 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $184 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $169 |
| Covidien LP | 5 | $168 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 9 | $138 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $135 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $106 |
| CSL Behring | 4 | $94 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $87 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Merck | 3 | $50 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $48 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $43 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $40 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $32 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Novartis | 1 | $19 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $19 |
| EKOS Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $14 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $9 |
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.
- PREVENA$167
How this compares
$2,265 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 377 surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pentoxifylline | 46 | $1,259 |
| Tamoxifen Citrate | 80 | $1,255 |
| Letrozole | 24 | $278 |
| Anastrozole | 33 | $274 |
| Minocycline Hcl | 48 | $245 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 16 | $53 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 27 | $45 |
| Omeprazole | 13 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Owensboro
- Thomas NebelOwensboro$31K
- Samuel CarsonOwensboro$25K
- Ravi AlapatiOwensboro$22K
- Matthew StrodeOwensboro$14K
- Joseph KimLexington$1.6M
- John RothLexington$1.6M
- Eric SmithAshland$1.1M
- John OldhamLouisville$515K
- George MundayDanville$271K
- Amber KoonHenderson$210K
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.