Sandy Christiansen, MD
Pain Medicine · Portland, ORNPI 1407112832
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,292 of the $3,017 with a category attached, or 76.0%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated at 24.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,262 and has fallen 84.4% since, to $196 in 2025.
Across 23 payments — averaging $131.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$725
- Medtronic$655
- Abbott$564
- MML US, Inc.$255
- Biotronik NRO, Inc.$212
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$203
- plus $403 from 3 others
Across 20 payments — averaging $4983.36 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Avanos Medical$100K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$72524%
- Food & beverage$2,29276%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $725 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $655 |
| Abbott | 5 | $564 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $255 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 3 | $212 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $203 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 3 | $176 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $145 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $83 |
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.
- EXPAREL$725
- ReActiv8$255
- PROCLAIM$235
- BIOTRONIK$173
- ETERNA$171
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$168
- Senza$145
- SPRINT PNS System$116
How this compares
$3,017 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 57 pain medicine providers in Oregon.
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.
Other pain medicine in Portland
- Kimberly MauerPortland$59K
- Stuart RosenblumPortland$31K
- Andrew OhPortland$30K
- Joseph StapletonPortland$13K
- Salman HiraniPortland$5K
- Behnum HabibiPortland$3K
- Ginevra LiptanPortland$2K
- James BertolaPortland$2K
- Robert FoegePortland$2K
- Irvan BubicPortland$2K
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.