Payal Christian
Acute Care · Columbia, MDNPI 1871992933
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 64 payments — averaging $19.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$260
- Ardelyx, Inc.$240
- AbbVie$188
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$159
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$151
- Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.$79
- plus $186 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,263100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 9 | $260 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 13 | $240 |
| AbbVie | 13 | $188 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 9 | $159 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 9 | $151 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $79 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 2 | $61 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $41 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $31 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 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.
- REZDIFFRA$125
How this compares
$1,263 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 502 acute care providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 11 | $5,782 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 13 | $156 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 11 | $74 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Columbia
- Paige GriffithBaltimore$106K
- Amanda ReaPerry Hall$65K
- T Nicole KelleyBaltimore$46K
- Amy GoodrichBaltimore$27K
- Rama AnthonyBaltimore$20K
- Susan HuppmannBaltimore$16K
- Tammy SlaterBaltimore$12K
- Eleanor DunlapBaltimore$11K
- Tierra AndersonTakoma Park$9K
- Lateaqua AlstonBaltimore$9K
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.