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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $138,686 in general payments to Christopher Graves, MD across 144 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 Graves, 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 Graves, 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 Graves, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Springfield, ILNPI 1235458399

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (45.5%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 57.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $48,935, 7.2 times the $6,809 reported in 2019.

$138,686in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 144 payments — averaging $963.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$80K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$58K
Stryker$215
Icotec Medical Inc.$207
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$153
Precision Spine, Inc.$121
plus $359 from 8 others

$53,125in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $17,708 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medtronic$53K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$63,05645%
Speaking & faculty fees$55,67140%
Travel & lodging$15,92411%
Food & beverage$4,0353%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	73	$79,825
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	52	$57,806
Stryker	3	$215
Icotec Medical Inc.	2	$207
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	2	$153
Precision Spine, Inc.	2	$121
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$114
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC	1	$99
Baxter Healthcare	2	$58
Globus Medical	1	$30
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$19
Johnson & Johnson	1	$14
Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC	1	$14
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$11

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.

CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$42,231
SPACE-D SYSTEM 5.5/6.0 VOYAGER INSTRUMENT SET$18,845
CD HORIZON$8,346
MISCELLANEOUS$3,907
ENDOSKELETON TC NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$1,400
DIVERGENCE ANTERIOR CERVICAL FUSION SYSTEM$1,050
Ascent$1,049
M6-C$389
STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$246
icotec BlackArmor Spine System$207
MagnetOs$127
Mariner MIS TLIF Retractor$119
Mariner$119
UNID_PASS$114
Restrata Wound Matrix$114
ASCENT;ASCENT LE;FIREBIRD SFS;ICON SFS;SFS$113

How this compares

$138,686 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$819,730

Medicare patients

668

Services billed

3,747

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
Gabapentin	561	$5,859
Celecoxib	195	$3,437
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	24	$538
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	89	$523
Donepezil Hcl	28	$312
Diclofenac Sodium	13	$183
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	25	$91

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Springfield

Timothy VanfleetSpringfield$3K
Joseph WilliamsSpringfield$3K
William PayneSpringfield$1K
Stephen PinedaSpringfield$775
Frank PhillipsChicago$3.9M
Kern SinghChicago$1.3M
Christopher DewaldChicago$1.2M
P Ronjon PaulNaperville$908K
Philip MeinhardtQuincy$507K
Anis MekhailPalos Heights$498K

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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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