Who Paid My Doc
Christpher Klifto
Hand Surgery Durham, NC Medical Doctor
NPI 1164713947 CMS profile 4227058
3609 Sw Durham Dr, Durham, NC 27707
General payments
$575,411
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$6,765
Research they led as principal investigator
$72,787
Through program year 2025, Christpher Klifto of Durham, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $575,411 across 658 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $72,787 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $6,765 across 1 holding.
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 99th percentile of Hand 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 | $202,439 | 184 | |
| 2024 | General | $147,931 | 152 | |
| 2023 | General | $82,327 | 108 | |
| 2022 | General | $66,431 | 94 | |
| 2021 | General | $28,056 | 33 | |
| 2020 | General | $20,180 | 26 | |
| 2019 | General | $28,047 | 61 | |
| 2025 | Ownership | $6,765 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Christpher Klifto
- Hand Surgery median
- Middle half of Hand Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Christpher Klifto were reported at $202,439. Among 1,842 Hand Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $270 and the middle half received between $102 and $1,118.
Show as a table
| Year | Christpher Klifto | Hand Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $28,047 | $383 | $106–$1,905 | $163 |
| 2020 | $20,180 | $172 | $51–$1,268 | $114 |
| 2021 | $28,056 | $263 | $71–$1,591 | $132 |
| 2022 | $66,431 | $336 | $87–$1,938 | $149 |
| 2023 | $82,327 | $233 | $81–$1,114 | $160 |
| 2024 | $147,931 | $258 | $88–$1,203 | $164 |
| 2025 | $202,439 | $270 | $102–$1,118 | $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 · 7 drugsPart D claims
159
Drug cost
$904
Branded share of claims
0%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | Generic | 11 | $251 | |
| Meloxicam | Generic | 57 | $186 | |
| Methylprednisolone | Generic | 23 | $175 | |
| Gabapentin | Generic | 12 | $91 | |
| Oxycodone Hcl | Generic | 20 | $86 | |
| Ibuprofen | Generic | 13 | $62 | |
| Tramadol Hcl | Generic | 23 | $53 |
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 · 83 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$303,281
Medicare patients
620
Services billed
4,494
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Arthritis | 74% | |
| High blood pressure | 71% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 28% | |
| Depression | 28% | |
| Diabetes | 27% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 24% | |
| Osteoporosis | 21% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 16% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg J0702 | Office | 113 | 424 | $2,233 |
| Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 | Office | 145 | 924 | $689 |
| Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg J1100 | Office | 145 | 916 | $79 |
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
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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.