Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2020–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Christopher Shultz

Sports Medicine Albuquerque, NM Medical Doctor

NPI 1316334089 CMS profile 2781420

2211 Lomas Blvd Ne, Albuquerque, NM 87106

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General payments

$54,320

122 records reported · program years 2020–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2020–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Christopher Shultz of Albuquerque, NM is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $54,320 across 122 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 87th percentile of Sports Medicine 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
2025 General $1,487 22
2024 General $2,927 35
2023 General $1,649 17
2022 General $952 14
2021 General $16,040 27
2020 General $31,265 7

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Christopher Shultz
  • Sports Medicine median
  • Middle half of Sports Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Christopher Shultz were reported at $1,487. Among 2,404 Sports Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $664 and the middle half received between $172 and $3,055.

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Year Christopher Shultz Sports Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $1,176 $199–$4,249 $163
2020 $31,265 $708 $96–$2,890 $114
2021 $16,040 $1,213 $152–$3,994 $132
2022 $952 $1,230 $159–$3,998 $149
2023 $1,649 $584 $146–$2,836 $160
2024 $2,927 $628 $163–$3,168 $164
2025 $1,487 $664 $172–$3,055 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Arthrex, Inc. $20,000 1 payment
  2. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $14,298 5 payments
  3. SouthTech Orthopedics $11,340 11 payments
  4. Stryker Corporation $4,067 52 payments
  5. Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC $2,478 17 payments
  6. Alliance Medical $1,181 16 payments
  7. Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. $326 2 payments
  8. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $270 6 payments
  9. ImpactOrtho, Inc. $176 7 payments
  10. DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $124 2 payments
  11. Other $60 3 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Education $25,590 13 payments
  2. Grant $20,000 1 payment
  3. Travel and Lodging $4,947 29 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $3,783 79 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. NA $1,536 11 payments
  2. ICONIX $928 11 payments
  3. PROCINCH $400 2 payments
  4. SALVATION $387 7 payments
  5. CINCHLOCK $281 5 payments
  6. AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED $272 2 payments
  7. Comprehensive Shoulder System $186 5 payments
  8. INSPACE $172 1 payment
  9. BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION $163 3 payments
  10. OMEGA $151 6 payments
  11. Other $907 21 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 · 6 drugs

Part D claims

125

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$1,459

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

15.2%

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
Naloxone Hcl Generic 15 $937
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 34 $172
Naproxen Generic 29 $136
Ondansetron Odt Ondansetron Brand 19 $84
Meloxicam Generic 17 $69
Ondansetron Hcl Generic 11 $62

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 · 33 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$54,432

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

140

Average age 71

Services billed

283

72 women, 68 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
Arthritis 75%
High blood pressure 66%
Depression 29%
Diabetes 27%
Ischemic heart disease 25%
Osteoporosis 21%
Chronic kidney disease 19%
Cancer 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

122 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

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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