Bruce Hill, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $16,000 of the $23,333 with a category attached, or 68.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 89.6% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $12,495 and has fallen 94.8% since, to $647 in 2025.
Across 85 payments — averaging $274.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$21K
- Zimmer Biomet$837
- Stryker$407
- Davol Inc.$399
- TELA Bio, Inc.$269
- Covidien LP$135
- plus $371 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,0004%
- Travel & lodging$2,99413%
- Food & beverage$2,92113%
- Education$16,00069%
- Gifts$4192%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 40 | $20,916 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $837 |
| Stryker | 3 | $407 |
| Davol Inc. | 8 | $399 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 8 | $269 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $135 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $135 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $64 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $44 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $27 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$20,443
- AdvantageRib$698
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$353
- PHASIX$152
How this compares
$23,333 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 202 surgery 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Sodium Chloride0.9 % Sodium Chloride | 12 | $434 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 51 | $192 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 52 | $166 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Provo
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- Jennifer TittensorProvo$22K
- John WennergrenProvo$21K
- Gregory PeirceProvo$11K
- Craig CookProvo$10K
- Jorge de Amorim FilhoSalt Lake City$344K
- Daniel CottamSalt Lake City$294K
- Mark MawhinneySalt Lake City$169K
- Nathan RichardsSalt Lake City$162K
- Cabot MurdockRiverton$161K
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.