Kevin Christian, DO
Surgery · Joplin, MONPI 1194019968
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 33 payments — averaging $293.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- Zimmer Biomet$41
- Medtronic$35
- Johnson & Johnson$25
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,37425%
- Food & beverage$1,31614%
- Education$6,00062%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 29 | $9,589 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $41 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $35 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $25 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$9,176
How this compares
$9,690 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 612 surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 152 | $577 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 14 | $232 |
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 15 | $160 |
| Metronidazole | 23 | $48 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 22 | $37 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Joplin
- David BendorfJoplin$21K
- Tiffany OsbornSaint Louis$493K
- Jeffrey BlatnikSaint Louis$422K
- Varun PuriSaint Louis$346K
- Victor VidalsKansas City$327K
- James ScottSaint Louis$307K
- Andrew WheelerColumbia$298K
- Omar GuerraSaint Louis$249K
- Michael AwadSaint Louis$248K
- Carl FreemanSaint Louis$233K
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.