Christopher Rupe, MD
Surgery · Salina, KSNPI 1740401249
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 60 payments — averaging $73.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$417
- Endologix LLC$313
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$238
- Smith+Nephew$207
- Inari Medical, Inc.$124
- plus $611 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$78118%
- Food & beverage$2,10448%
- Education$1,50034%
- Gifts$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 6 | $2,483 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $417 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $313 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 10 | $238 |
| Smith+Nephew | 10 | $207 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Stryker | 2 | $76 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $73 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 4 | $56 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $54 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $38 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Vertex | 1 | $19 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $19 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $18 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Leica Microsystems Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 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.
How this compares
$4,393 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 271 surgery providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 49 | $31,805 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 123 | $743 |
| Anastrozole | 38 | $524 |
| Tamoxifen Citrate | 31 | $514 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 54 | $386 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 19 | $266 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $95 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $93 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 60 | $83 |
| Cephalexin | 18 | $76 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 19 | $67 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 12 | $52 |
| Levofloxacin | 15 | $43 |
| Metronidazole | 11 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Salina
- Nicholas BrownWichita$2.9M
- Therese CusickWichita$223K
- Jeremy HowesWichita$111K
- Christopher MorrisseyWinfield$87K
- Robert WinfieldKansas City$84K
- Christopher CummingsOverland Park$70K
- Stanley HoehnLenexa$60K
- Robert AragonLenexa$56K
- Kimberly PonnuruMerriam$36K
- Bradon BitterWichita$33K
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.