Has Dallin Christensen, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,018 in general payments to Dallin Christensen, MD across 28 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 Dallin Christensen, 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 Dallin Christensen, 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.

Dallin Christensen, MD

Otolaryngology · Rapid City, SDNPI 1033602313

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,224 of the $2,018 with a category attached, or 60.7%. Stryker accounts for 65.3% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,313 and has fallen 88.3% since, to $153 in 2025.

$2,018in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $72.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$1K
Cochlear Americas$185
Ambu Inc.$124
Advanced Bionics, LLC$100
Intersect ENT, Inc.$85
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$72
plus $133 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,22461%
Food & beverage$79439%

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
Stryker	12	$1,319
Cochlear Americas	2	$185
Ambu Inc.	1	$124
Advanced Bionics, LLC	2	$100
Intersect ENT, Inc.	1	$85
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$72
Acclarent, Inc	2	$38
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$35
Medtronic	2	$26
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$18
Avita Medical Americas, LLC	1	$16

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.

NA$3,073
SMARTLOCK$489
Cochlear Nucleus CI632 cochlear implant with Slim Modiolar electrode$110
Baha$110
OSIA OSI300 IMPLANT$110

How this compares

$2,018 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 39 otolaryngology providers in South Dakota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$95,755

Medicare patients

358

Services billed

2,327

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
Ofloxacin	22	$393
Ipratropium Bromide	14	$379
Omeprazole	15	$266
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	18	$117
Prednisone	35	$85
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	11	$71

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Skye LawlorRapid City$905
Vaughan BowenRapid City$864
Ronald GuyRapid City$468
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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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