Christopher Holland, MD
Neurological Surgery · Concord, NCNPI 1235373218
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 839 payments — averaging $888.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$494K
- Globus Medical$237K
- Spine Wave, Inc.$7K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$1K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$798
- plus $3K from 21 others
Across 11 payments — averaging $11,237 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.
- Medtronic$121K
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$3K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$129,18819%
- Consulting fees$161,21424%
- Speaking & faculty fees$300,86545%
- Travel & lodging$51,3418%
- Food & beverage$20,5193%
- Education$1300%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 538 | $494,260 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 168 | $236,728 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 19 | $6,740 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 8 | $2,241 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 33 | $1,112 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 4 | $798 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 4 | $682 |
| Spineology Inc. | 5 | $337 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $311 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $294 |
| Boston Scientific | 13 | $238 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $214 |
| Stryker | 2 | $192 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $159 |
| Steris Corporation | 2 | $155 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $142 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 12 | $130 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 4 | $100 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $35 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $26 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Axogen | 1 | $19 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Trackx Technology, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$95,314
- CD HORIZON$69,614
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$60,667
- Excelsius - GPS$52,079
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$37,469
- Imaging System$32,634
- IntraLIF$30,978
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$26,748
- ELSA$24,633
- ELSA ATP$18,027
- SPACE-D SYSTEM 5.5/6.0 VOYAGER INSTRUMENT SET$15,722
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$12,966
- CORBEL$9,672
- Sable$8,561
- PRONE LATERAL$6,614
- O-ARM$5,536
- CAPSTONE$5,497
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$5,315
- MIDAS REX$4,595
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$4,554
How this compares
$745,257 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 196 neurological surgery 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 89 | $937 |
| Methocarbamol | 61 | $843 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 45 | $421 |
| Methylprednisolone | 18 | $114 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Concord
- Byron BranchConcord$81K
- Robert IsaacsDurham$6.6M
- Christopher ShaffreyDurham$4.5M
- Domagoj CoricCharlotte$4.1M
- Kimberly LivingstonRaleigh$3.4M
- John ThomasWilmington$2.4M
- Paul KimCharlotte$1.8M
- Alexander PowersKernersville$1.7M
- Vibhor KrishnaChapel Hill$1.6M
- Charles BranchAdvance$1.6M
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.