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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $221,966 in general payments to Christopher Henderson, MD across 105 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 Henderson, 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 Henderson, 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 Henderson, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Dickson City, PANPI 1528249489

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $189,125 of the $221,966 with a category attached, or 85.2%. Altus Partners. LLC accounts for 84.2% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $70,814 and has fallen 97.2% since, to $2,000 in 2025.

$221,966in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 105 payments — averaging $2113.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Altus Partners. LLC$187K
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$10K
Surgentec$7K
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education$7K
Camber Spine Technologies LLC$5K
Medtronic$2K
plus $4K from 14 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$189,12585%
Consulting fees$24,17511%
Speaking & faculty fees$5000%
Travel & lodging$4,6042%
Food & beverage$3,5622%

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
Altus Partners. LLC	4	$186,843
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	9	$10,235
Surgentec	2	$7,295
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education	17	$7,012
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	8	$4,690
Medtronic	12	$2,109
Novus Surgical Consultants	5	$823
Arthrex	10	$690
Si-bone, Inc.	12	$604
Curvafix, Inc.	1	$500
Boston Scientific	15	$486
Globus Medical	2	$151
Stryker	1	$98
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$87
Nevro Corp.	1	$81
Intrinsic Therapeutics	1	$79
Spinal Elements, Inc.	1	$73
Xtant Medical Inc	1	$72
Baxter Healthcare	1	$25
Elevation Spine, 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.

Fuji Cervical Plate System$127,627
Silverstone Titanium Interbody Fusion System$127,627
Suzuka Interbody Fusion System$127,627
Mariner$9,583
Shoreline$8,500
ION Facet Screw$7,295
CD HORIZON$1,646
Orthros$1,560
Mariner MIS$1,083
Shoreline ACS$1,083
Meridian$1,083
CurvaFix IM Implant$500
Spira$291
RAPID$250
INTELLIS$147
Senza$145
7D Surgical System$117
iFuse Implant$105
INFINION$103

How this compares

$221,966 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 43 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Pennsylvania.

See all orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Pennsylvania →

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$294,905

Medicare patients

730

Services billed

1,700

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
Mupirocin	150	$1,093
Methylprednisolone	122	$1,042
Gabapentin	70	$720
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	109	$580
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	82	$258
Methocarbamol	38	$139
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	22	$116
Meloxicam	35	$97
Tramadol Hcl	18	$91
Tizanidine Hcl	16	$61

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Dickson City

Alan GillickDickson City$301
Alan HilibrandBensalem$1.4M
Joel TorrettiState College$1.1M
Gregory BaileyState College$1.1M
David AndersonBensalem$786K
Jeffrey McConnellAllentown$509K
Joshua PahysPhiladelphia$213K
David CasperPhiladelphia$195K
Scott RushtonWynnewood$93K
Eric EmanskiState College$88K

See the full list for Pennsylvania →

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.

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →