Christopher Mings, PA
Physician Assistant · Fort Pierce, FLNPI 1326452251
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $160,356 of the $211,186 with a category attached, or 75.9%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 99.4% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $110,589, more than ten times the $567 reported in 2021. Among physician assistant clinicians in FL 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 484 payments — averaging $436.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$210K
- Edwards Lifesciences$270
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$262
- Abiomed$243
- Medtronic$191
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$68
- plus $208 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$160,35676%
- Speaking & faculty fees$520%
- Travel & lodging$32,59315%
- Food & beverage$15,6727%
- Education$2,5131%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 445 | $209,943 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 7 | $270 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 9 | $262 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $243 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $191 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $68 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $59 |
| BD | 2 | $52 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
| LSI Solutions 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.
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$149,403
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$28,676
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$27,189
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$5,562
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$3,979
- FUSION ABLATION SYSTEM$1,619
- LARIAT RS$563
- ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$176
- Impella$125
- Azure$114
- Vasoview Hemopro 2$102
How this compares
$211,186 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,062 physician assistant providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 36 | $679 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 36 | $385 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 40 | $320 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 50 | $319 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 51 | $113 |
| Colchicine | 13 | $96 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 21 | $36 |
| Potassium Chloride | 13 | $30 |
| Furosemide | 15 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Fort Pierce
- Audrey BeckerSt Augustine$689K
- Kevin WilliamsTampa$647K
- Brian BonomoLecanto$559K
- Melissa SingletonOcala$482K
- Reeli ReinuMaitland$427K
- Jeanelle KingMiami$424K
- Risha BellomoOrlando$397K
- Jason BergerClearwater$344K
- Ashley MillerGainesville$328K
- Nicole HillOrlando$319K
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.