Has Duncan Watley, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,711 in general payments to Duncan Watley, MD across 55 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Duncan Watley, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Duncan Watley, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Duncan Watley, MD

Otolaryngology · Missoula, MTNPI 1689023038

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,065 of the $9,711 with a category attached, or 62.5%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 42.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,475 and has fallen 93.8% since, to $342 in 2025. Among otolaryngology 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.

$9,711in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 55 payments — averaging $176.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$4K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
Kls-martin L.p.$757
Stryker$451
Acclarent, Inc$358
Sanofi$236
plus $370 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$6,06562%
Food & beverage$3,55737%
Education$891%

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	19	$4,079
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	9	$3,459
Kls-martin L.p.	5	$757
Stryker	4	$451
Acclarent, Inc	7	$358
Sanofi	2	$236
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$130
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$106
Zimmer Biomet	1	$51
Johnson & Johnson	2	$29
Aerin Medical Inc.	1	$19
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$19
Tactile Systems Technology Inc	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.

How this compares

$9,711 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 34 otolaryngology providers in Montana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$238,061

Medicare patients

309

Services billed

1,507

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
Azelastine Hcl	141	$3,317
Ipratropium Bromide	85	$2,789
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate	14	$2,045
Budesonide	11	$1,558
Mupirocin	184	$1,322
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	61	$478
Famotidine	29	$370
Doxycycline Hyclate	22	$293
Cefdinir	11	$257
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	53	$256
Montelukast Sodium	19	$241
Prednisone	51	$195
Vancomycin Hcl	16	$154
Methylprednisolone	26	$134
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	13	$61

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Missoula

Jonathan FowlkesMissoula$3K
Jeffrey HallerMissoula$1K
Peter VondoerstenMissoula$712
Karen AhlstromMissoula$441
Daniel BrabyMissoula$236
David HayesMissoula$223
Phillip GardnerMissoula$212
David CaiBillings$4K
Kyle TubbsKalispell$3K
Brian PelczarBillings$3K

See the full list for Montana →

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.

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