Who Paid My Doc
Christopher Skillern
Vascular Surgery Ventura, CA Medical Doctor
NPI 1205936697 CMS profile 796135
100 N Brent St Ste 201, Ste 225, Ventura, CA 93003
General payments
$15,445
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$64,450
Through program year 2025, Christopher Skillern of Ventura, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $15,445 across 210 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $64,450 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 77th percentile of Vascular Surgery 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 | $4,775 | 23 | |
| 2024 | General | $4,521 | 31 | |
| 2023 | General | $2,482 | 71 | |
| 2022 | General | $1,591 | 36 | |
| 2021 | General | $383 | 22 | |
| 2020 | General | $42 | 3 | |
| 2019 | General | $1,652 | 24 |
Beside peers
- Christopher Skillern
- Vascular Surgery median
- Middle half of Vascular Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Christopher Skillern were reported at $4,775. Among 3,991 Vascular Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $924 and the middle half received between $273 and $2,636.
Show as a table
| Year | Christopher Skillern | Vascular Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $1,652 | $796 | $226–$2,363 | $163 |
| 2020 | $42 | $348 | $118–$1,110 | $114 |
| 2021 | $383 | $471 | $158–$1,421 | $132 |
| 2022 | $1,591 | $725 | $222–$2,183 | $149 |
| 2023 | $2,482 | $836 | $257–$2,440 | $160 |
| 2024 | $4,521 | $909 | $252–$2,619 | $164 |
| 2025 | $4,775 | $924 | $273–$2,636 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 8 drugsPart D claims
507
Drug cost
$136,860
Branded share of claims
64.3%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eliquis Apixaban | Brand | 60 | $76,572 | |
| Xarelto Rivaroxaban | Brand | 51 | $54,857 | |
| Clopidogrel Clopidogrel Bisulfate | Brand | 215 | $2,302 | |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | Generic | 85 | $1,920 | |
| Cilostazol | Generic | 36 | $931 | |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | Generic | 29 | $240 | |
| Famotidine | Generic | 17 | $25 | |
| Prednisone | Generic | 14 | $13 |
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 3,087 Part D prescribers listed as Vascular Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 155 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$1,133,037
Medicare patients
885
Services billed
4,663
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 51% | |
| Diabetes | 47% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 43% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 41% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 31% | |
| Heart failure | 28% | |
| Depression | 25% |
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
210 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.