Christopher Goltz, MD
Vascular Surgery · Flint, MINPI 1689829673
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 80 payments — averaging $102.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$5K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$314
- Medtronic$205
- Abbott$157
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$134
- plus $718 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,71327%
- Food & beverage$4,62073%
- Education$351%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 43 | $4,840 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $1,850 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 11 | $314 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $205 |
| Abbott | 2 | $157 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $100 |
| Stryker | 1 | $96 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $90 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $86 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $40 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Novartis | 1 | $28 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $20 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $15 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $3 |
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.
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$1,882
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$448
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$266
- ENDURANT IIS$164
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$145
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis$135
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$134
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$134
- ESPRIT$130
- VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with PROPATEN Bioactive Surface$125
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$106
How this compares
$8,218 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 183 vascular surgery providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 16 | $15,237 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 59 | $1,031 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 52 | $734 |
| Cilostazol | 20 | $712 |
| Alprazolam | 16 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Flint
- Robert MolnarFlint$54K
- Nitin MalhotraFlint$53K
- Carlo Dall OlmoFlint$43K
- Nicolas MouawadWest Branch$2.6M
- Enrique Criado PallaresMidland$800K
- Vikram KashyapGrand Rapids$421K
- Andrea ObiAnn Arbor$404K
- Jordan KnepperEast Lansing$386K
- Chandu VemuriAnn Arbor$346K
- Eanas YassaGrand Rapids$185K
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.