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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,842 in general payments to Christopher Godbout, MD across 151 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 Godbout, 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 Godbout, 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 Godbout, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Cary, NCNPI 1538198213

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $10,056 of the $11,842 with a category attached, or 84.9%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Nevro Corp. at 53.1% of the total. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in NC 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.

$11,842in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 151 payments — averaging $78.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Nevro Corp.$6K
Medtronic$3K
Boston Scientific$872
Abbott$703
Globus Medical$382
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$273
plus $299 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$4204%
Travel & lodging$1,36612%
Food & beverage$10,05685%

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
Nevro Corp.	72	$6,290
Medtronic(2 entities)	49	$3,024
Boston Scientific	10	$872
Abbott	6	$703
Globus Medical	6	$382
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	4	$273
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	2	$184
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$77
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$38

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.

Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$2,408
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$1,584
Senza$1,430
Omnia$1,324
Intracept$801
ETERNA$475
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$310
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$199
PROCLAIM$198
INTELLIS$171
Evoke$167
TARGETSTIM$145
ADAPTIVESTIM$142

How this compares

$11,842 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 269 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$157,451

Medicare patients

240

Services billed

2,579

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
Lidocaine	12	$1,974
Gabapentin	180	$1,950
Pregabalin	57	$1,171
Duloxetine Hcl	35	$551
Tizanidine Hcl	56	$530
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	116	$389
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	63	$207
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	19	$149
Methocarbamol	12	$133
Methylprednisolone	20	$131
Meloxicam	25	$74
Oxycodone Hcl	32	$71
Diazepam	19	$30

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Cary

Paul AndrewsCary$11K
John SchmidtCary$5K
Peng BaiCary$5K
Nicole BullockCary$3K
Andrew SumichCharlotte$181K
Patrick O BrienRaleigh$86K
Elizabeth BagsbyGreenville$33K
Krishna BhatSanford$30K
Jasbir DhaliwalSanford$23K
Jimmy MaliDurham$20K

See the full list for North Carolina →

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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