Dollars for Docs

How Industry Dollars Reach Your Doctors

This database was last updated in October 2019 and should only be used as a historical snapshot. Newer data is available at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Open Payments site.

CHRISTOPHER E YI
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CHRISTOPHER E YI

Listed Specialty: Surgery
MEDICAL CENTER BLVD, WINSTON SALEM, NC, 27157-0001
* Note: This physician had a California practice address when the most recent payments were reported.
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DR. CHRISTOPHER YI,
Yearly Payment Breakdown:

2018 Payments At a Glance

20

payments

$1,490

payment total

11

companies paid this doctor

Payment Calendar in 2018

This doctor received a payment on days in 2018.

Each box below represents a single day during the disclosure period. A gray box indicates no payments. The darker the color, the more payments a doctor received that day.

2018

Types of Payments in 2018

Category Payments Payment Value
Travel and Lodging
5 $868
Food and Beverage
14 $555
Education
1 $66

Drugs & Devices in 2018

Totals listed below account for all payments from that mention this product. Beginning in 2016, the government began classifying products as drugs, devices, biologics or medical supplies. Below, you will see drugs (drugs and biologics) and devices (devices and medical supplies). If a payment record mentions more than one product, the entire value will be included in each of those products. When no products are listed, they are not included in the list below.

Product Name Product Type Payments
COOK MEDICAL AAA

device

$674
COOK MEDICAL ZENITH

device

$455
ENDURANT

device

$113
VASCULAR GRAFT

device

$66
VALIANT CAPTIVIA

device

$53
EKOSONIC

device

$24
ELIQUIS

drug

$19
GENERAL THERAPIES

device

$18
AFX

device

$16
OVATION

device

$16
Payments with no listed product

N/A

$14
JETSTREAM

device

$13
FLEXITOUCH

device

$13
ACTITOUCH

device

$13
ENTRE

device

$13
IGT_D PERIPHERAL

device

$12
† May not add up to dollar total at top of page, since a payment record may not be associated with any product or can be associated with several products.

Payment Details in 2018

When How Much Related To What For From Third Party Payee
Apr 28, 2018 $400 COOK MEDICAL AAA Travel and Lodging COOK INCORPORATED
Jun 19, 2018 $385 COOK MEDICAL ZENITH Travel and Lodging COOK INCORPORATED
May 3, 2018 $119 COOK MEDICAL AAA Food and Beverage COOK INCORPORATED
Oct 1, 2018 $110 COOK MEDICAL AAA Food and Beverage COOK MEDICAL LLC
Apr 19, 2018 $105 ENDURANT Food and Beverage MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC.
Jan 17, 2018 $66 VASCULAR GRAFT Education W. L. GORE & ASSOCIATES, INC. ELSEVIER OFFICE OF CONTINUING EDUCATION
Oct 26, 2018 $53 VALIANT CAPTIVIA Food and Beverage MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC.
Jun 19, 2018 $38 COOK MEDICAL ZENITH Travel and Lodging COOK INCORPORATED
Jun 19, 2018 $32 COOK MEDICAL ZENITH Food and Beverage COOK INCORPORATED
Oct 15, 2018 $24 EKOSONIC Food and Beverage EKOS CORPORATION
May 3, 2018 $23 COOK MEDICAL AAA Travel and Lodging COOK INCORPORATED
May 4, 2018 $23 COOK MEDICAL AAA Travel and Lodging COOK INCORPORATED
Jul 30, 2018 $19 ELIQUIS Food and Beverage E.R. SQUIBB & SONS, L.L.C.
Nov 26, 2018 $18 GENERAL THERAPIES Food and Beverage BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION
Sep 6, 2018 $16 AFX OVATION Food and Beverage ENDOLOGIX, INC.
Aug 23, 2018 $14 No Listed Product Food and Beverage MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, INC.
Mar 8, 2018 $13 JETSTREAM Food and Beverage BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION
Sep 28, 2018 $13 FLEXITOUCH ACTITOUCH ENTRE Food and Beverage TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY INC
Jul 9, 2018 $12 IGT_D PERIPHERAL Food and Beverage PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NORTH AMERICA CORPORATION
Oct 13, 2018 $8 ENDURANT Food and Beverage MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC.
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Note: We have made some effort to normalize the data and eliminate duplicates, but the data is primarily as it has been reported by the companies to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. To purchase the normalized data, please visit the ProPublica Data Store. If you spot an error, please let us know at [email protected].

This site includes data published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on June 28, 2019.