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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,188 in general payments to Christopher Schmidt, MD across 84 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 Schmidt, 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 Schmidt, 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 Schmidt, MD

Facial Plastic Surgery · Ocala, FLNPI 1063667541

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,617 of the $3,188 with a category attached, or 82.1%. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $885 and has fallen 61.9% since, to $337 in 2025.

$3,188in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 84 payments — averaging $37.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Sanofi$614
Photonicare Inc$571
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$377
GSK$328
Aerin Medical Inc.$234
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$182
plus $883 from 15 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,61782%
Other$57118%

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
Sanofi	25	$614
Photonicare Inc	1	$571
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	2	$377
GSK	8	$328
Aerin Medical Inc.	8	$234
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	6	$182
Smith+Nephew	7	$182
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	6	$150
Stryker	4	$117
Access Pro Medical, LLC	2	$112
Optinose US, Inc.	3	$58
Merck	2	$49
Organogenesis Inc.	2	$48
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$32
Medtronic	1	$32
Cochlear Americas	1	$27
Oticon Medical, LLC	1	$20
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$19
Intersect ENT, Inc.	1	$18
Acclarent, Inc	1	$14
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	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.

How this compares

$3,188 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 49 facial plastic surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$246,686

Medicare patients

457

Services billed

2,870

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
Ipratropium Bromide	212	$6,660
Fluticasone Propionate	94	$1,634
Montelukast Sodium	117	$1,387
Omeprazole	133	$1,370
Methylprednisolone	122	$1,013
Doxycycline Monohydrate	14	$893
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	17	$741
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	75	$660
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	30	$313
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	13	$213
Mupirocin	26	$202
Pentoxifylline	14	$193
Triamcinolone Acetonide	42	$156
Famotidine	18	$153
Clindamycin Hcl	14	$136

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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