Who Paid My Doc
Christopher Dewald
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Chicago, IL Medical Doctor
NPI 1952334948 CMS profile 43419
1611 W Harrison St, Ste 400, Chicago, IL 60612
General payments
$1,189,865
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$47,547
Through program year 2025, Christopher Dewald of Chicago, IL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,189,865 across 233 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $47,547 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 96th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine 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 | $396,126 | 25 | |
| 2024 | General | $289,211 | 22 | |
| 2023 | General | $216,111 | 32 | |
| 2022 | General | $164,929 | 40 | |
| 2021 | General | $53,594 | 24 | |
| 2020 | General | $29,894 | 32 | |
| 2019 | General | $40,001 | 58 |
Beside peers
- Christopher Dewald
- Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median
- Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Christopher Dewald were reported at $396,126. Among 1,704 Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles paid that year, the median was $2,061 and the middle half received between $347 and $14,651.
Show as a table
| Year | Christopher Dewald | Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $40,001 | $2,106 | $337–$18,608 | $163 |
| 2020 | $29,894 | $1,213 | $156–$15,082 | $114 |
| 2021 | $53,594 | $1,834 | $271–$15,617 | $132 |
| 2022 | $164,929 | $2,015 | $320–$17,036 | $149 |
| 2023 | $216,111 | $1,925 | $336–$14,599 | $160 |
| 2024 | $289,211 | $2,110 | $341–$12,483 | $164 |
| 2025 | $396,126 | $2,061 | $347–$14,651 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 36 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$211,054
Medicare patients
156
Services billed
569
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| High blood pressure | 73% | |
| Osteoporosis | 40% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 28% | |
| Depression | 24% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 17% | |
| Heart failure | 15% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 15% |
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
233 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.