Christopher St Charles, MD
Otolaryngology · Signal Mountain, TNNPI 1669416855
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 18 payments — averaging $18.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$96
- Stryker$36
- Intersect ENT, Inc.$31
- Medtronic$25
- Kerecis Limited$24
- Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$22
- plus $98 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$332100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 5 | $96 |
| Stryker | 2 | $36 |
| Intersect ENT, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $25 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $24 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $19 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Novartis | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$332 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 191 otolaryngology providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Azelastine Hcl | 50 | $1,223 |
| Ipratropium Bromide | 21 | $717 |
| Famotidine | 36 | $420 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 32 | $407 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 34 | $362 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 22 | $339 |
| Mometasone Furoate | 13 | $258 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 16 | $138 |
| Alprazolam | 48 | $105 |
| Mupirocin | 11 | $76 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other otolaryngology in Signal Mountain
- Rakesh ChandraNashville$537K
- David FortuneHermitage$298K
- David KentNashville$195K
- Taha JanNashville$184K
- Marion GillespieMemphis$171K
- Naweed ChowdhuryNashville$151K
- Grady BryantHermitage$74K
- Clyde MathisonFarragut$66K
- Jeffrey HuntKingsport$43K
- Dean KlugGermantown$37K
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.