Record · Provider
Christopher Hyer
Worthington, OH. NPI 1033185152. Foot & Ankle Surgery.
What was reported, 2019–2025
- $4.7 million
- General payments
- $4,722,190
- 1,104 separate payments. What they were, as CMS records them, is below.
- $42,261
- Research payments
- Funding for a study, usually paid to an institution with this doctor named on it. Not added to general payments, and not income.
- $41,250
- Ownership and investment
- The value of a stake this doctor or an immediate family member held.
- 0
- Disputed
- This doctor has contested none of the payments reported about them.
How this compares
- General payments: $4,722,190, 2019–2025
- By the amount companies reported, 1st among the 8,957 profiles with general payments in Foot & Ankle Surgery.
General payments: this profile's rank in each group, its place among the profiles nationally and its share of the national total Nationally 269th of 1,688,859 In Ohio 10th of 66,850 In Foot & Ankle Surgery 1st of 8,957 Profiles below it nationally More than 99% Share of the national total < 0.1% - Research payments: $42,261, 2019–2025
- By the amount companies reported, 21st among the 116 profiles named on research payments in Foot & Ankle Surgery.
Research payments: this profile's rank in each group, its place among the profiles nationally and its share of the national total Nationally 2,802nd of 22,827 In Ohio 97th of 908 In Foot & Ankle Surgery 21st of 116 Profiles below it nationally More than 87% Share of the national total < 0.1% - Ownership and investment: $41,250, 2019–2025
- By the amount companies reported, 38th among the 67 profiles with ownership or investment interests in Foot & Ankle Surgery.
Ownership and investment: this profile's rank in each group, its place among the profiles nationally and its share of the national total Nationally 1,811th of 3,979 In Ohio 64th of 178 In Foot & Ankle Surgery 38th of 67 Profiles below it nationally More than 54% Share of the national total < 0.1%
What the payments were
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| Nature of payment | Amount |
|---|---|
| Royalty or License | $3.6 million$3,574,676 |
| Consulting Fee | $721,527 |
| Acquisitions | $176,116 |
| Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program | $108,549 |
| Travel and Lodging | $79,696 |
| Honoraria | $32,621 |
| Food and Beverage | $19,884 |
| Grant | $5,000 |
| Education | $4,091 |
| Gift | $30 |
Each payment as the manufacturer categorized it when reporting it to CMS, across 2019–2025. Together they are the general payments above. A category is the reporter’s, and nothing in the record says a payment in any of them was improper.
By program year
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| Program year | General | Research |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $391,878 | $10,519 |
| 2024 | $412,570 | $8,869 |
| 2023 | $553,627 | $0 |
| 2022 | $926,990 | $0 |
| 2021 | $847,903 | $0 |
| 2020 | $674,401 | $2,243 |
| 2019 | $914,822 | $20,631 |
CMS reports a program year at a time and also publishes its own total across them, which is what the figures above are. These rows are that total taken apart, not a second set of payments.
The record
- National Provider Identifier
- 1033185152
- The identifier this page is addressed by, and the one both CMS files share.
- Licensed in
- OH
- The state of the license CMS lists first.
- Recipient type
- Covered Recipient Physician
- How CMS classifies the recipient of these payments.
Medicare prescribing
What this provider billed to Medicare Part D in 2024, as CMS published it. Medicare Part D only: what they prescribed outside it is not here.
- 124
- Claims
- Prescriptions and refills billed to Part D, as CMS counts them.
- $4,037
- Total drug cost
- What Part D, the plan and the patient paid together. Not what this provider was paid — they are paid nothing out of it.
- 87
- Beneficiaries
- People with at least one prescription from this provider.
- Withheld
- Brand-name claims
- Of the claims above, those for a brand-name drug. CMS withheld this value and marked it "*". It publishes two markers and two reasons — a value between 1 and 10, or one withheld so another cannot be worked out — without saying which marker means which.
- 118
- Generic claims
- Of the claims above, those for a generic.
- 0
- Opioid claims
- CMS puts this provider's opioid prescribing rate at 0% of their claims. That is their figure, computed from their own unsuppressed data.
- 11
- Antibiotic claims
- Claims for an antibiotic.
- Podiatry
- Prescriber type
- As CMS classifies this prescriber. Credentials: DPM.
A blank is not a zero. CMS withholds a value between 1 and 10, and withholds the next lowest alongside it so the first cannot be worked out by subtraction — so a withheld figure is not even evidence that the number was small. Rows for ten or fewer claims are removed from the file altogether, which is why the parts of a total can be withheld while the total is published.
Elsewhere
- Payments to doctors in Ohio — what was reported across the state this doctor practises in.
- What drug and device companies pay doctors — the national picture these figures are part of.
- This record at CMS — the publisher’s own page for this profile.
- The NPI registry — who this identifier belongs to, at CMS.
Data retrieved
Sources
- Open Payments — payments grouped by physician — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
Compiled automatically from Open Payments — payments grouped by physician by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built