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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,627 in general payments to Neil Christie, MD across 63 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 Neil 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 Neil 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.

Neil Christie, MD

Thoracic Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1730151580

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,627in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 63 payments — averaging $184.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$6K
AstraZeneca$3K
Pulmonx Corporation$474
Medtronic$364
Davol Inc.$318
Johnson & Johnson$294
plus $763 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,41721%
Travel & lodging$2,16719%
Food & beverage$4,36738%
Education$2,64323%
Gifts$340%

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	34	$5,969
AstraZeneca	10	$3,445
Pulmonx Corporation	3	$474
Medtronic	3	$364
Davol Inc.	2	$318
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	3	$294
Pinnacle Biologics, Inc	4	$254
BD	1	$179
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$121
Olympus America Inc.	1	$119
Merck	1	$90

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

Too few thoracic surgery providers in Pennsylvaniato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$70,294

Medicare patients

169

Services billed

338

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	17	$504
Omeprazole	14	$200

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery in Pittsburgh

Omar AwaisPittsburgh$62K
Matthew SchuchertPittsburgh$12K
James LuketichPittsburgh$7K
Brian MottScranton$46K
Russell StahlScranton$6K
Burt FaziAltoona$624

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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