Has Dudley Christie, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $84,574 in general payments to Dudley Christie, MD across 160 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 Dudley Christie, 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 Dudley Christie, 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.

Dudley Christie, MD

Surgical Critical Care · Macon, GANPI 1073790622

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $72,662 of the $84,574 with a category attached, or 85.9%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 94.7% of it on its own, with 28 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $31,935 and has fallen 93.9% since, to $1,949 in 2025. Among surgical critical care clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$84,574in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 160 payments — averaging $528.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$80K
Penumbra, Inc.$2K
Johnson & Johnson$999
Zimmer Biomet$537
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$257
AbbVie$159
plus $996 from 23 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$72,66286%
Travel & lodging$8,05810%
Food & beverage$3,8545%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	55	$80,126
Penumbra, Inc.	8	$1,500
Johnson & Johnson(3 entities)	31	$999
Zimmer Biomet	7	$537
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	9	$257
AbbVie(2 entities)	4	$159
TELA Bio, Inc.	3	$125
Acell, Inc.	5	$112
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	6	$85
Kerecis Limited	3	$76
Polarityte, Inc.	2	$67
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$62
Avanos Medical	4	$59
Z-medica, LLC	2	$45
Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited	2	$43
Baxter Healthcare	3	$37
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	2	$35
Solventum Corporation	2	$35
Avita Medical Americas, LLC	1	$31
Biom'up SA	1	$27
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$23
Chiesi USA, Inc.	1	$21
Atricure, Inc.	1	$20
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$18
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$18
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$15
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$14
Vertex	1	$14
Smith+Nephew	1	$13

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.

MATRIXRIB$52,653
MATRIX$26,698
Smart Coil$1,227
ZIPFIX$785
TSFS$785
AdvantageRib$392
RUBY Coil$108

How this compares

$84,574 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 52 surgical critical care providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$91,892

Medicare patients

326

Services billed

621

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
Pantoprazole Sodium	12	$259
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	17	$225
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	11	$138
Oxycodone Hcl	19	$86

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgical critical care in Macon

Dennis AshleyMacon$16K
Ashley JonesMacon$14K
Kristin HarmonMacon$8K
Amy ChristieMacon$1K
Macram AyoubMacon$510
Lawrence WilsonMacon$42
Jonathan NguyenAtlanta$410K
Michael CormicanGainesville$196K
Elizabeth BenjaminAtlanta$55K
Bounthavy HomsombathAugusta$30K

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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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