Has Christopher Ripperda, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,553 in general payments to Christopher Ripperda, MD across 85 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Christopher Ripperda, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Christopher Ripperda, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Christopher Ripperda, MD

Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1790001360

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 95.8% of the total across 85 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 54.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $956 and has fallen 68.3% since, to $303 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $5,014.

$3,553in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 85 payments — averaging $41.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$2K
Axonics, Inc.$969
Caldera Medical, Inc$314
Boston Scientific$271
Johnson & Johnson$33
Aspira Women's Health Inc$19
plus $6 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3,40396%
Education$562%
Gifts$943%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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)	52	$1,942
Axonics, Inc.	22	$969
Caldera Medical, Inc	6	$314
Boston Scientific	2	$271
Johnson & Johnson	1	$33
Aspira Women's Health Inc	1	$19
Intuitive Surgical	1	$6

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.

INTERSTIM$1,023
Axonics$555
Desara$202
Bulkamid$143

How this compares

$3,553 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 74 urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$321,944

Medicare patients

353

Services billed

1,998

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
GemtesaVibegron	156	$105,523
MyrbetriqMirabegron	40	$32,626
Estradiol	145	$10,758
Fosfomycin Tromethamine	39	$6,468
Methenamine Hippurate	42	$2,740
Naloxone Hcl	22	$1,303
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst	29	$449
Clobetasol Propionate	13	$358
Tramadol Hcl	108	$212
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	33	$162
Amitriptyline Hcl	13	$127
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	16	$37

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery in Fort Worth

Wendy LengFort Worth$10K
Stephen KrausSan Antonio$372K
Keith XavierArlington$282K
Tomas AntoniniAustin$183K
Amanda WhiteAustin$108K
Gazala SiddiquiHouston$81K
Fiona LindoHouston$66K
Peter LotzeHouston$48K
Tracy Cannon-SmithArlington$29K
Teresa IrwinSan Marcos$20K

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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.

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