Medical Doctor Program year 2024 Reported 2019–2024 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Christopher Hutchins

Orthopaedic Surgery Westerly, RI Medical Doctor

NPI 1902805591 CMS profile 474683

101 Airport Rd., Westerly, RI 02891

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General payments

$74,673

24 records reported · program years 2019–2024

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2024

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2024, Christopher Hutchins of Westerly, RI is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $74,673 across 24 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 91st percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2024 General $1,387 8
2023 General $271 2
2022 General $72,504 5
2021 General $81 1
2020 General $14 1
2019 General $416 7

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Christopher Hutchins
  • Orthopaedic Surgery median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Christopher Hutchins were reported at $0. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year Christopher Hutchins Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $416 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $14 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $81 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $72,504 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $271 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $1,387 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $0 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Exactech, Inc. $72,312 3 payments
  2. Encore Medical, LP $1,277 10 payments
  3. Stryker Corporation $603 6 payments
  4. Flexion Therapeutics, Inc. $125 1 payment
  5. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC $102 1 payment
  6. Heron Therapeutics, Inc. $89 1 payment
  7. DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $83 1 payment
  8. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $81 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $72,000 1 payment
  2. Food and Beverage $1,675 16 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $916 3 payments
  4. Royalty or License $81 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. TRULIANT $72,000 1 payment
  2. DJO SURGICAL Joint Implants $722 4 payments
  3. DJO SURGICAL Joint Implants $619 2 payments
  4. DJO SURGICAL Joint Implants $557 1 payment
  5. DJO SURGICAL Joint Implants $474 2 payments
  6. DJO SURGICAL Joint Implants $474 2 payments
  7. ALTEON $312 2 payments
  8. TRIATHLON $215 2 payments
  9. MAKO $156 1 payment
  10. Zilretta $125 1 payment
  11. Other $769 12 payments

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 · 5 drugs

Part D claims

291

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$1,467

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

0%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Celecoxib Generic 37 $605
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 66 $300
Meloxicam Generic 103 $284
Tramadol Hcl Generic 67 $139
Mupirocin Generic 18 $139

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 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 78 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$196,257

Of which drugs: $7,030

Medicare patients

495

Average age 78

Services billed

16,112

317 women, 178 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 74%
Ischemic heart disease 21%
Atrial fibrillation 21%
Chronic kidney disease 20%
Depression 20%
Cancer 19%
Osteoporosis 19%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 Office 128 13,760 $1,376
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 80 mg J1040 Office 35 41 $238

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

24 reported

Every 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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What this means

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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2024

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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