Physician Assistant Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Christopher Linke

Physician Assistant Grand Island, NE Physician Assistant

NPI 1639571656 CMS profile 11169890

2116 W Faidley Ave, Grand Island, NE 68803

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General payments

$7,683

469 records reported · program years 2021–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Christopher Linke of Grand Island, NE is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $7,683 across 469 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 95th percentile of Physician Assistant profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,806 108
2024 General $1,676 97
2023 General $1,854 107
2022 General $1,164 75
2021 General $1,183 82

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Christopher Linke
  • Physician Assistant median
  • Middle half of Physician Assistant
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Christopher Linke were reported at $1,806. Among 68,903 Physician Assistant profiles paid that year, the median was $184 and the middle half received between $57 and $620.

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Year Christopher Linke Physician Assistant median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $34 $17–$122 $163
2020 $0 $33 $16–$78 $114
2021 $1,183 $132 $37–$438 $132
2022 $1,164 $155 $48–$522 $149
2023 $1,854 $167 $52–$557 $160
2024 $1,676 $178 $55–$600 $164
2025 $1,806 $184 $57–$620 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $2,086 137 payments
  2. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $925 53 payments
  3. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $700 36 payments
  4. Lilly USA, LLC $508 35 payments
  5. UCB, Inc. $478 29 payments
  6. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $465 28 payments
  7. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $428 37 payments
  8. Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $379 17 payments
  9. Genzyme Corporation $379 22 payments
  10. Incyte Corporation $331 20 payments
  11. Other $1,005 55 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $7,223 463 payments
  2. Education $460 6 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. SKYRIZI $918 66 payments
  2. TREMFYA $786 43 payments
  3. RINVOQ $685 42 payments
  4. DUPIXENT Immunology $531 30 payments
  5. TALTZ $503 34 payments
  6. SOTYKTU $415 36 payments
  7. Bimzelx $398 23 payments
  8. ILUMYA $364 24 payments
  9. OPZELURA $331 20 payments
  10. DUPIXENT Inflammation And Immunology $313 15 payments
  11. Other $3,861 227 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 · 16 drugs

Part D claims

426

Median for Physician Assistant: 241

Drug cost

$324,716

Median for Physician Assistant: $4,110

Branded share of claims

18.3%

Median for Physician Assistant: 19.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Dupixent Pen Dupilumab Brand 35 $145,815
Taltz Autoinjector Ixekizumab Brand 12 $81,657
Dupixent Syringe Dupilumab Brand 13 $48,453
Opzelura Ruxolitinib Phosphate Brand 18 $37,008
Clobetasol Propionate Generic 42 $2,647
Tacrolimus Generic 21 $2,620
Fluorouracil Generic 22 $1,933
Ketoconazole Generic 92 $1,852
Fluocinonide Generic 15 $707
Triamcinolone Acetonide Generic 51 $697

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 16 counted.

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 114,276 Part D prescribers listed as Physician Assistant; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 36 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$142,431

Of which drugs: $14,045

Medicare patients

782

Average age 74

Services billed

4,450

269 women, 513 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 72%
Arthritis 42%
Diabetes 26%
Ischemic heart disease 25%
Atrial fibrillation 19%
Chronic kidney disease 18%
Cancer 16%
Depression 14%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Aminolevulinic acid hcl for topical administration, 20%, single unit dosage form (354 mg) J7308 Office 25 46 $14,039

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.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 24 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
SKYRIZI
  • AbbVie, Inc. $263
$263 — —
SOTYKTU
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $192
$192 — —
Bimzelx
  • UCB, Inc. $167
$167 — —
RINVOQ
  • AbbVie, Inc. $161
$161 — —
TREMFYA
  • Janssen Biotech, Inc. $155
$155 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

469 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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

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