Daniel Dixon, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Missoula, MTNPI 1659692929
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $25,785 of the $37,637 with a category attached, or 68.5%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 39.3% of the total. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 197 payments — averaging $191.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$15K
- Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.$10K
- Sioux Surgical Inc$4K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- plus $3K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,4006%
- Travel & lodging$25,78569%
- Food & beverage$9,45225%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 78 | $14,773 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 4 | $9,751 |
| Sioux Surgical Inc | 30 | $4,415 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 6 | $2,399 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 12 | $1,908 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 19 | $1,307 |
| Stryker | 17 | $949 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $442 |
| VB Spine LLC | 6 | $433 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $281 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 6 | $270 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $197 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $180 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $69 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $29 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Excelsius Robotics System$2,996
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,349
- CREO$2,346
- Excelsius - GPS$2,109
- XLIF$1,499
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,367
- Timberline$1,026
- ELSA$955
- CALIBER$887
- Excelsius Deformity$395
- Vitality$358
- Mobi-C$308
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$240
- Strand Plus$175
- TRITANIUM PL$165
- PRESTIGE LP CERVICAL DISC SYSTEM$153
- MARS$139
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$133
- OZARK CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$133
- Trinity ELITE$125
How this compares
$37,637 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 76 orthopaedic surgery providers in Montana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 81 | $758 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 45 | $497 |
| Methylprednisolone | 64 | $421 |
| Methocarbamol | 78 | $287 |
| Pregabalin | 14 | $243 |
| Cefadroxil | 33 | $222 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 23 | $222 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 36 | $215 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 30 | $179 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $80 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 25 | $74 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 32 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Missoula
- Daniel WhitingMissoula$39K
- John WernerMissoula$24K
- Zackery WitteMissoula$18K
- Michael WoodsMissoula$10K
- Mark ChannerMissoula$8K
- James GholsonMissoula$7K
- Jessica TelleriaMissoula$4K
- Larry StaynerMissoula$3K
- Justin JacobsonMissoula$2K
- Gary WillsteinMissoula$2K
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.