Christopher Heck, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Hoover, ALNPI 1245315308
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 469 payments — averaging $354.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$128K
- Globus Medical$23K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$2K
- Life Spine, Inc.$2K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$1K
- plus $8K from 29 others
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 | 114 | $128,440 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 82 | $22,845 |
| Boston Scientific | 128 | $2,295 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $2,136 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 15 | $1,686 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 17 | $1,434 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 11 | $1,244 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 1 | $881 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 15 | $755 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $550 |
| Amgen | 12 | $513 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $497 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $496 |
| MML US, Inc. | 4 | $480 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 14 | $418 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $209 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 3 | $197 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $186 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 6 | $145 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $143 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $138 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 4 | $118 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $104 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| Stryker | 1 | $63 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $36 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$166,404 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 319 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alabama.
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 Hoover
- Kenneth JaffeHoover$96K
- Jeffrey DugasBirmingham$11.7M
- Benton EmblomBirmingham$3.1M
- James SmithGadsden$2.7M
- Herrick SiegelBirmingham$1.3M
- Paul CanaleDaphne$609K
- Kenneth MooreBirmingham$342K
- Jeffrey DavisBirmingham$293K
- Joseph SherrillBirmingham$221K
- Jonathan QuadeBirmingham$219K
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.