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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $30,960 in general payments to Mark Christensen, MD across 33 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 Mark 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 Mark 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.

Mark Christensen, MD

Emergency Medicine · Boaz, ALNPI 1609161124

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $28,375 of the $30,960 with a category attached, or 91.7%. Brainscope Company, Inc. accounts for 97.4% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $14,390 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $72 in 2025. Among emergency medicine clinicians in AL 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.

$30,960in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $938.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Brainscope Company, Inc.$30K
Mindray DS USA, Inc.$168
AstraZeneca$130
Mylan Specialty L.p.$123
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$116
Abbott$104
plus $179 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$28,37592%
Travel & lodging$1831%
Food & beverage$2,4028%

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
Brainscope Company, Inc.	8	$30,141
Mindray DS USA, Inc.	3	$168
AstraZeneca	7	$130
Mylan Specialty L.p.	1	$123
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$116
Abbott	1	$104
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	3	$41
AbbVie	2	$39
BTG International Inc.	1	$24
Purdue Pharma L.p.	1	$18
Biomerieux Inc	1	$17
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$15
Novo Nordisk	1	$13
Johnson & Johnson	1	$12

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

$30,960 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 565 emergency medicine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$82,952

Medicare patients

598

Services billed

902

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	123	$486
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst	24	$346
Ketorolac Tromethamine	16	$318
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	48	$276
Cephalexin	37	$269
Methylprednisolone	29	$257
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	31	$205
Methocarbamol	26	$172
Clindamycin Hcl	13	$166
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	17	$164
Azithromycin	29	$161
Prednisone	37	$96
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	22	$79
Omeprazole	13	$60
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	13	$46

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other emergency medicine in Boaz

Mark MitchellAtmore$309K
James GalbraithBirmingham$74K
Lauren WalterBirmingham$64K
Lisa Moreno-WaltonMobile$23K
Jeremy TownsPell City$10K
Malika AryanpureNorthport$9K
Jorge AlsipMobile$8K
Brian HassaniMontgomery$4K
Maxwell ThompsonBirmingham$4K
Richard BeverlyMobile$4K

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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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