Who Paid My Doc
Christopher Carsten
Vascular Surgery Greenville, SC Medical Doctor
NPI 1275586471 CMS profile 193549
200 Patewood Dr, Suite C300, Greenville, SC 29615
General payments
$8,492
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$28,718
Through program year 2025, Christopher Carsten of Greenville, SC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,492 across 234 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $28,718 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 64th percentile of Vascular Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
7 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $1,938 | 64 | |
| 2024 | General | $2,395 | 89 | |
| 2023 | General | $1,502 | 37 | |
| 2022 | General | $817 | 13 | |
| 2021 | General | $402 | 7 | |
| 2020 | General | $498 | 8 | |
| 2019 | General | $940 | 16 |
Beside peers
- Christopher Carsten
- Vascular Surgery median
- Middle half of Vascular Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Christopher Carsten were reported at $1,938. Among 3,991 Vascular Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $924 and the middle half received between $273 and $2,636.
Show as a table
| Year | Christopher Carsten | Vascular Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $940 | $796 | $226–$2,363 | $163 |
| 2020 | $498 | $348 | $118–$1,110 | $114 |
| 2021 | $402 | $471 | $158–$1,421 | $132 |
| 2022 | $817 | $725 | $222–$2,183 | $149 |
| 2023 | $1,502 | $836 | $257–$2,440 | $160 |
| 2024 | $2,395 | $909 | $252–$2,619 | $164 |
| 2025 | $1,938 | $924 | $273–$2,636 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 6 drugsPart D claims
87
Drug cost
$31,538
Branded share of claims
47.1%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eliquis Apixaban | Brand | 19 | $15,744 | |
| Fondaparinux Sodium | Generic | 11 | $15,333 | |
| Clopidogrel Clopidogrel Bisulfate | Brand | 22 | $264 | |
| Cilostazol | Generic | 12 | $134 | |
| Pravastatin Sodium | Generic | 11 | $62 | |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | Generic | 12 | $2 |
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 3,087 Part D prescribers listed as Vascular Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 103 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$60,432
Medicare patients
401
Services billed
855
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 53% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 51% | |
| Arthritis | 50% | |
| Diabetes | 45% | |
| Heart failure | 36% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 28% | |
| COPD | 28% |
Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.
Records
234 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.