Christopher Hills, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Jackson, WYNPI 1518024488
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $70,950 of the $106,735 with a category attached, or 66.5%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 77.5% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $37,883 and has fallen 62.1% since, to $14,358 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in WY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 181 payments — averaging $589.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$83K
- Globus Medical$17K
- Active Medical, LLC$3K
- Centinel Spine, LLC$2K
- Augmedics Inc.$1K
- GE HealthCare$609
- plus $757 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$70,95066%
- Travel & lodging$29,58928%
- Food & beverage$6,1786%
- Entertainment$180%
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 | 83 | $82,760 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 54 | $16,703 |
| Active Medical, LLC | 8 | $3,326 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $1,509 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 12 | $1,070 |
| GE HealthCare | 2 | $609 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $227 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $120 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $110 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $82 |
| Stryker | 1 | $49 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $24 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Pfizer | 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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$71,945
- XLIF$8,595
- LTP$6,250
- Xvision$4,000
- LIF$2,213
- Excelsius - GPS$2,119
- ALIF$1,704
- Pulse$1,694
- FORTOS-C$1,500
- RELINE$1,000
- Excelsius Robotics System$982
- Spine$717
- MaXcess$600
- IdentiTi$389
- RISE-L$197
- Invictus MIS$105
How this compares
$106,735 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 69 orthopaedic surgery providers in Wyoming.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 41 | $278 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 41 | $136 |
| Mupirocin | 19 | $118 |
| Methylprednisolone | 20 | $116 |
| Pregabalin | 16 | $64 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 34 | $54 |
| Diazepam | 14 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Jackson
- Joshua BeckJackson$7K
- Rebecca SjostromJackson$3K
- Jason ProvusJackson$2K
- Heidi JostJackson$1K
- William NealJackson$393
- David KhouryJackson$292
- Andrew BullingtonJackson$268
- Matthew FournierLaramie$34K
- Jaymeson ArthurCasper$30K
- Ryan AukermanLaramie$24K
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.