Heidi Christie, DPM
Podiatrist · Montgomery, ALNPI 1629093042
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,616 of the $7,408 with a category attached, or 75.8%. Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. accounts for 68.1% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,056 and has fallen 87.0% since, to $399 in 2025. Among podiatrist clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 118 payments — averaging $62.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$5K
- Organogenesis Inc.$395
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$341
- AbbVie$197
- Amgen$191
- Vaporox, Inc.$167
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1472%
- Travel & lodging$1,36618%
- Food & beverage$5,61676%
- Entertainment$2804%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 34 | $5,043 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 5 | $395 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 26 | $341 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $197 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 7 | $191 |
| Vaporox, Inc. | 1 | $167 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 4 | $156 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $137 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $132 |
| Solventum Corporation | 4 | $132 |
| Celularity Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $102 |
| Stryker | 1 | $69 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $41 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$7,408 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 59 podiatrist providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketoconazole | 25 | $833 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 17 | $435 |
| Gabapentin | 63 | $374 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 24 | $276 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 21 | $238 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $130 |
| Mupirocin | 13 | $83 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 14 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Montgomery
- Johnnie AlstonMontgomery$9K
- Adam TrinqueMontgomery$1K
- Ace AnglinMontgomery$744
- Luke SiciliaMontgomery$639
- R WhitmoreMontgomery$97
- Debra BedgoodMontgomery$89
- Michael HamesFlorence$100K
- James MorganMobile$21K
- John RobersonBirmingham$10K
- Kyle MaukBirmingham$10K
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.