Alan Hillstead, MD
Pain Medicine · Cedar City, UTNPI 1144431958
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (48.7%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 73.6% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,652 and has fallen 84.6% since, to $254 in 2022. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in UT, where the typical reported total is $3,451.
Across 34 payments — averaging $62.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$279
- Boston Scientific$179
- Amgen$30
- Vertiflex, Inc.$27
- Nevro Corp.$14
- plus $28 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2009%
- Travel & lodging$1,03049%
- Food & beverage$88642%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 7 | $1,557 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 7 | $279 |
| Boston Scientific | 13 | $179 |
| Amgen | 2 | $30 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $14 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- SYNCHROMED$1,274
- Intracept$400
How this compares
$2,115 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 61 pain medicine providers in Utah.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other pain medicine in Cedar City
- Maria SchwartzSalt Lake City$813K
- Jeremy JoyalDraper$170K
- Lynn WebsterSalt Lake City$160K
- Benjamin HumpherysLayton$120K
- Derek HaightDraper$78K
- Jon ObraySt George$24K
- Jason BeckstrandWest Jordan$17K
- Austin AlbrightSalt Lake City$14K
- Jeffrey PenceWest Valley City$13K
- Braden WebbDraper$12K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.