Christopher Hamill, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Buffalo, NYNPI 1164495446
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 290 payments — averaging $4202.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$1.2M
- Smaio SA$1K
- Globus Medical$575
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$197
- Stryker$162
- Cerapedics Inc.$142
- plus $573 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,000,73082%
- Consulting fees$155,59013%
- Travel & lodging$52,6524%
- Food & beverage$8,4821%
- Education$1,0000%
- Gifts$1320%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 243 | $1,215,794 |
| Smaio SA | 5 | $1,143 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $575 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $197 |
| Stryker | 2 | $162 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $142 |
| Abyrx, Inc | 1 | $127 |
| Medtronic | 15 | $117 |
| Avanos Medical | 4 | $60 |
| Axogen | 1 | $49 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $38 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $32 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Abbott | 1 | $22 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| 7d Surgical Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- IdentiTi$801,435
- Other - Miscellaneous$357,872
- OsseoScrew$173,842
- Invictus MIS$110,825
- LIF$19,826
- INVICTUS OPEN$11,669
- Solus ALIF$9,617
- Arsenal Deformity$8,000
- MULTIPLE$1,294
- ALIF$470
- KODIAK$470
- Excelsius - GPS$463
- Intracept$349
- Battalion TLIF - PC$201
- Montage Settable Resorbable Hemostatic Bone Putty$127
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$111
How this compares
$1,218,586 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,079 orthopaedic surgery providers in New York.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Buffalo
- Thomas DuquinBuffalo$2.4M
- Anthony RomeoNew York$27M
- Lawrence LenkeNew York$26.8M
- Edwin SuNew York$14.1M
- William RicciNew York$11.6M
- Steven HaasNew York$11.5M
- Giles ScuderiNew York$10.9M
- Joseph ZuckermanNew York$9.9M
- Evan FlatowNew York$9.6M
- Bradford ParsonsNew York$9.4M
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.