Christopher Kim, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Charleston, WVNPI 1780619742
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 675 payments — averaging $411.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$123K
- Abbott$55K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$29K
- Boston Scientific$25K
- Painteq LLC$15K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$12K
- plus $18K from 12 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $18.78 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.
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$19
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 135 | $123,332 |
| Abbott | 423 | $55,258 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 23 | $29,203 |
| Boston Scientific | 21 | $24,766 |
| Painteq LLC | 22 | $15,466 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 9 | $11,859 |
| Stryker | 6 | $10,159 |
| Aurora Spine, Inc. | 3 | $3,500 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 6 | $3,110 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 4 | $419 |
| Nevro Corp. | 11 | $316 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $131 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $117 |
| Curonix LLC | 3 | $72 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $59 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $47 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
Too few interventional pain medicine providers in West Virginiato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 interventional pain medicine in Charleston
- Timothy DeerCharleston$4.2M
- Anuj ShahCharleston$7K
- Rudy MalayilHuntington$120K
- Andrew ThymiusBeckley$9K
- Raymond GreaserWheeling$9K
- Stephanie leWeirton$9K
- Corinne Layne StuartBridgeport$8K
- Luay MradParkersburg$8K
- George van OstenMartinsburg$145
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.