Christopher Harden, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Gainesville, FLNPI 1306282124
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $3,850 of the $5,909 with a category attached, or 65.2%. United Therapeutics Corporation accounts for 90.1% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Among critical care medicine clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 17 payments — averaging $347.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- United Therapeutics Corporation$5K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$587
Across 105 payments — averaging $6744.03 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.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$404K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$275K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$27K
- GSK$1K
- Novartis$33
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,85065%
- Travel & lodging$1,41224%
- Food & beverage$64611%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 13 | $5,322 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $587 |
How this compares
$5,909 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 618 critical care medicine providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OfevNintedanib Esylate | 123 | $1,624,459 |
| Pirfenidone | 16 | $35,498 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 21 | $16,438 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 27 | $12,162 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 68 | $9,455 |
| AsmanexMometasone Furoate | 12 | $1,876 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 34 | $994 |
| Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 18 | $982 |
| Prednisone | 39 | $353 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 31 | $255 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 11 | $181 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 14 | $162 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimOfev | $587 | $1,624,459123 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 618 critical care medicine providers in Florida.
Other critical care medicine in Gainesville
- David BecnelGainesville$64K
- Ali AtayaGainesville$63K
- Azra BihoracGainesville$10K
- Ragai MeenaGainesville$9K
- Charles HobsonGainesville$6K
- Louis GuzziOrlando$635K
- Fortune AlabiKissimmee$587K
- Debabrata BandyopadhyayTampa$398K
- Fred UmehKissimmee$371K
- Amit TandonWesley Chapel$338K
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.