Has Gregory Hill, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,404 in general payments to Gregory Hill, MD across 92 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 Gregory Hill, 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 Gregory Hill, 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.

Gregory Hill, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Cedar Rapids, IANPI 1457322745

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (36.6%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 64.1% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,195 and has fallen 92.0% since, to $257 in 2025.

$9,404in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 92 payments — averaging $102.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$6K
Arthrex$3K
Smith+Nephew$460
Johnson & Johnson$53
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$15

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,70229%
Food & beverage$3,43837%
Education$3,26435%

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
Stryker	74	$6,032
Arthrex	10	$2,844
Smith+Nephew	6	$460
Johnson & Johnson	1	$53
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$15

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.

REUNION$1,109
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$979
MAKO$909
RHEAD$864
T2$270
Regeneten$246
AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$169
AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$158
AUGMENT INJECTABLE$141
ADAPT$140
AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$140
Coblation Wands$102

How this compares

$9,404 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 219 orthopaedic surgery providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$122,799

Medicare patients

234

Services billed

1,483

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
Celecoxib	49	$1,423
Meloxicam	316	$496
Oxycodone Hcl	43	$268
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	23	$252
Tramadol Hcl	78	$222
Sulindac	11	$181
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	29	$171
Famotidine	32	$140
Ondansetron Hcl	40	$122
Tranexamic Acid	24	$118
Ibuprofen	14	$115
Amoxicillin	62	$70
Cephalexin	36	$65
Clindamycin Hcl	16	$29
Levofloxacin	11	$23

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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