Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Christopher Shaffrey

Neurological Surgery Durham, NC Medical Doctor

NPI 1235208877 CMS profile 147144

40 Duke Medicine Cir # 1B1c, # 1B/1C, Durham, NC 27710

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General payments

$4,535,573

925 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$4,726,444

2 holdings reported · through program year 2025

Through program year 2025, Christopher Shaffrey of Durham, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,535,573 across 925 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $4,726,444 across 2 holdings.

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 99th percentile of Neurological Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,197,474 205
2024 General $556,519 130
2023 General $466,150 129
2022 General $368,905 109
2021 General $397,185 101
2020 General $656,605 82
2019 General $892,735 169
2023 Ownership $4,726,444 2

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Christopher Shaffrey were reported at $1,197,474. Among 5,467 Neurological Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $596 and the middle half received between $159 and $3,102.

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Year Christopher Shaffrey Neurological Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $892,735 $582 $138–$3,006 $163
2020 $656,605 $294 $76–$2,174 $114
2021 $397,185 $387 $105–$2,432 $132
2022 $368,905 $542 $139–$2,989 $149
2023 $466,150 $534 $145–$2,697 $160
2024 $556,519 $574 $155–$3,046 $164
2025 $1,197,474 $596 $159–$3,102 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. NuVasive, Inc. $1,648,963 276 payments
  2. SI-BONE, Inc. $899,656 104 payments
  3. Medtronic, Inc. $823,636 305 payments
  4. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $381,215 9 payments
  5. Medtronic USA, Inc. $318,733 54 payments
  6. Globus Medical, Inc. $280,256 70 payments
  7. Alphatec Spine, Inc $92,586 17 payments
  8. Zimvie Inc. $38,951 11 payments
  9. Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. $19,230 18 payments
  10. MML US, Inc. $17,886 23 payments
  11. Other $14,462 38 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $3,894,786 180 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $410,320 53 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $132,852 297 payments
  4. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $62,786 8 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $34,775 386 payments
  6. Entertainment $55 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. TLX Spine/Spine Surgery $1,066,717 30 payments
  2. Archon Spine/Spine Surgery $876,024 17 payments
  3. Brigade Spine/Spine Surgery $816,415 12 payments
  4. BASE Spine/Spine Surgery $729,763 21 payments
  5. TLX Spine/Spine Surgery $691,728 8 payments
  6. BASE Spine/Spine Surgery $654,297 6 payments
  7. Archon Spine/Spine Surgery $652,069 7 payments
  8. Brigade Spine/Spine Surgery $651,946 6 payments
  9. IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM $651,367 34 payments
  10. CoRoent $541,845 6 payments
  11. Other $4,064,848 620 payments

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 · 37 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$102,815

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

153

Average age 75

Services billed

349

90 women, 63 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 75%
Osteoporosis 35%
Depression 31%
Ischemic heart disease 27%
Chronic kidney disease 27%
Atrial fibrillation 22%
Diabetes 19%

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

925 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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 2025

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

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