Christopher Hess, MD
Anesthesiology · Wilmington, NCNPI 1356631162
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 484 payments — averaging $41.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$8K
- Boston Scientific$7K
- Abbott$1K
- Medtronic$839
- Nevro Corp.$513
- AbbVie$478
- plus $2K from 28 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 11 | $8,021 |
| Boston Scientific | 207 | $6,787 |
| Abbott | 86 | $1,357 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 38 | $839 |
| Nevro Corp. | 16 | $513 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 32 | $478 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 5 | $387 |
| Globus Medical | 6 | $271 |
| Amgen | 21 | $243 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 10 | $144 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $104 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $98 |
| Vertex | 3 | $84 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $55 |
| Novartis | 1 | $49 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $42 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $34 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $22 |
| Stryker | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $17 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $13 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Pajunk Medical Systems, LP | 1 | $8 |
How this compares
$20,007 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,149 anesthesiology providers in North Carolina.
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 anesthesiology in Wilmington
- David MacleodDurham$4.8M
- Ian WelsbyDurham$1.4M
- Mihai PodgoreanuDurham$993K
- Ashraf HabibDurham$874K
- Jeffrey GadsdenDurham$861K
- Karthik RaghunathanDurham$637K
- Warwick AmesDurham$611K
- Michael DevinneyDurham$582K
- Thomas TempletonWinston Salem$398K
- Brad TaicherDurham$366K
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.