David Hiller, MD
Surgery · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1548550544
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $10,000 of the $13,650 with a category attached, or 73.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 76.4% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $12,811, more than ten times the $131 reported in 2019.
Across 28 payments — averaging $487.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$207
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$145
- Coloplast$120
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,20016%
- Travel & lodging$500%
- Food & beverage$1,40010%
- Education$10,00073%
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 | 13 | $10,434 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $2,744 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $207 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $120 |
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$10,284
- Echelon Flex$2,714
- Enseal$250
- Echelon Circular$143
- DERMABOND PRINEO$143
- ALTIS$120
- CONTOUR$107
How this compares
$13,650 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 970 surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Colestipol Hcl | 12 | $1,931 |
| LoperamideLoperamide Hcl | 26 | $799 |
| Metronidazole | 47 | $269 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 15 | $141 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 38 | $133 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 27 | $104 |
| Nystatin | 11 | $103 |
| Gabapentin | 17 | $91 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Winston Salem
- Nikhil TepparaWinston Salem$138K
- Andrew MonteleoneWinston Salem$104K
- Brant HenifordCharlotte$831K
- Vedra AugensteinCharlotte$789K
- John MartinieCharlotte$712K
- Dana PortenierDurham$702K
- Paul EnochsCary$595K
- David IannittiCharlotte$360K
- William HopeWilmington$350K
- Martyn KnowlesRaleigh$311K
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.