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Covered recipient · General Payments record
MARK DEAN CHRISTENSEN
Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Family Medicine
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General Payments · PY2019–2025
- CMS publication 2026-06-30
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By nature of payment
PY2025 · sorted by reported total
| Nature of payment | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|
| Food and Beverage | $1,333.03 | 65 |
By paying entity
PY2025 · sorted by reported total
| Paying entity | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|
| Acerta Pharma LLC | $228.21 | 10 |
| Novo Nordisk AS | $141.00 | 8 |
| PFIZER INC. | $134.75 | 6 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | $120.51 | 7 |
| Amgen Inc. | $98.01 | 5 |
| Gilead Sciences, Inc. | $79.09 | 3 |
| GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. | $71.52 | 4 |
| ABBVIE INC. | $61.21 | 3 |
| NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CORPORATION | $46.32 | 2 |
| Bioventus LLC | $45.44 | 2 |
| BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | $39.22 | 1 |
| Exact Sciences Corporation | $36.90 | 2 |
| ABIOMED | $27.84 | 1 |
| Abbott Laboratories | $23.17 | 1 |
| MERZ NORTH AMERICA, INC. | $23.04 | 1 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | $21.18 | 1 |
| Hologic Sales and Service, LLC | $20.77 | 1 |
| Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation | $18.58 | 1 |
| SI-BONE, INC. | $18.13 | 1 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | $17.76 | 1 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | $17.67 | 1 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | $14.26 | 1 |
| FIDIA PHARMA USA INC. | $14.25 | 1 |
| VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED | $14.20 | 1 |
By program year
All program years on this page · sorted by year
Payment records · PY2025 (65)
Ordering applied by this site (date, newest first, then paying entity) · record values are shown as CMS published them
Source & provenance
- Dataset
- CMS Open Payments — General Payments
- Publisher of source data
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- CMS publication date
- 2026-06-30
- Program years on this page
- 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- Source files
- Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024 , PY2025
- Generated from
- OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv
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Cite this record.
Permalink https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1588944516
- Plain
- MARK DEAN CHRISTENSEN, NPI 1588944516. IndustryPayments, data edition 2026-07-26T04:22:22Z. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1588944516.
- APA 7
- IndustryPayments. (2026). MARK DEAN CHRISTENSEN, NPI 1588944516 (Data edition 2026-07-26T04:22:22Z) [Data set]. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1588944516
- Bluebook
- MARK DEAN CHRISTENSEN, NPI 1588944516, IndustryPayments (data edition 2026-07-26T04:22:22Z), https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1588944516.
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Open Payments.