Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.
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Christopher Richard Conner, MD, PHD

Individual provider Neurological Surgery Physician · NPI 1184010480

Christopher Richard Conner, MD, PHD practises Neurosurgery in Houston, Texas. Graduated from University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 2015, 11 years ago. Practices with University of Connecticut Health Center, a 628-clinician group, accepts Medicare assignment and offers telehealth. Licensed in Texas.

Years since qualifying
11
Trained at
University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Licensed in
TX
In the registry since
2015
Specialties on file
2
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.
PHD — Doctor of Philosophy
A research doctorate. In healthcare it usually sits alongside a clinical licence.

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Practice location Address checks out

6400 Fannin St Ste 2800
Houston, TX 77030-1521 Not confirmed with CMS for 10 years — call before visiting
Phone: (713) 704-7100
Fax: (713) 704-7150
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Specialties & licences

Neurological Surgery Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207T00000X · Licence BP10053026 (TX)
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program Taxonomy 390200000X

Record details

NPI number1184010480
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD , PHD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedApril 13, 2015
Last updated in NPPESDecember 7, 2015

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyNEUROSURGERY
Medical schoolUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL AT HOUSTON
Graduated 2015 (11 years in practice)
Group practice University Of Connecticut Health Center — 628 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
TelehealthOffers telehealth services

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Spinal fusion 45 times · 53rd percentile
Laminectomy or laminotomy (partial removal of spine bones) 1–10 times

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients82
Services billed 184 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age72

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Travel and Lodging $4,122 11 payments · travel or lodging paid or reimbursed, such as to attend a conference
Food and Beverage $3,524 43 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee
Consulting Fee $3,200 2 payments

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

  • Hartford Hospital Hospital · Hartford, CT
  • John Dempsey Hospital Of The University Of Connect Hospital · Farmington, CT

Also affiliated with 1 long-term care hospital, which CMS identifies by certification number only.

Colleagues at University of Connecticut Health Center

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 628 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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