Has Christopher Glezos, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $114,029 in general payments to Christopher Glezos, MD across 68 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Christopher Glezos, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Christopher Glezos, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Christopher Glezos, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Fresno, CANPI 1922341601

Payments from drug & device makers

$114,029in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 68 payments — averaging $1676.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Lazurite Inc.$75K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$37K
Johnson & Johnson$871
Stryker$428
Urgo Medical North America, LLC$100
Heraeus Medical, LLC.$47
plus $115 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$35,45691%
Travel & lodging$1,1333%
Food & beverage$2,4406%

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
Lazurite Inc.	2	$75,000
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	35	$37,469
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	11	$871
Stryker	10	$428
Urgo Medical North America, LLC	1	$100
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	2	$47
Smith+Nephew	2	$32
Omnilife Science, Inc	2	$31
Amgen	1	$20
BD	1	$17
Boston Scientific	1	$15

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.

ATTUNE$613
Velys$482
MAKO$116
Spine & Trauma 3D Navigation$109
VASHE WOUND SOLUTION 250 ML (8.5 FL OZ) FLIP TOP CAP$100
DRAWTEX HYDROCONDUCTIVE WOUND DRESSING WITH LEVAFIBER 4X4$100
UrgoK2$100

How this compares

$114,029 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$733,932

Medicare patients

1,107

Services billed

53,314

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	122	$4,528
Gabapentin	156	$1,125
Cefadroxil	118	$989
Oxycodone Hcl	131	$951
Meloxicam	101	$330
Tramadol Hcl	22	$56
Amoxicillin	28	$27

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Fresno

Eric HansonFresno$1.8M
Connor TellesFresno$1M
Julia LeeFresno$588K
Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
Robert GorabOrange$14.5M
Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
Peter NewtonSan Diego$7M
Nirav AminPlacentia$5.8M

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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.

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