Jace Bullard, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Great Falls, MTNPI 1306225917
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $20,083 of the $28,783 with a category attached, or 69.8%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 69.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $11,829 and has fallen 73.0% since, to $3,192 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 59 payments — averaging $487.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$20K
- Zimmer Biomet$7K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Stryker$138
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$54
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$50
- plus $29 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,36322%
- Food & beverage$2,3378%
- Education$20,08370%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $20,000 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 41 | $7,253 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $1,259 |
| Stryker | 3 | $138 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $50 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
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
$28,783 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 51 | $1,423 |
| Meloxicam | 93 | $347 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 17 | $133 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 17 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Great Falls
- Tysen TimmerGreat Falls$16K
- Michael HeldGreat Falls$6K
- Michael BryantGreat Falls$2K
- Gregg PikeGreat Falls$1K
- John AveryGreat Falls$359
- Nicholas BonfilioGreat Falls$313
- Brian DrakeBillings$84K
- Daniel WhitingMissoula$39K
- Daniel DixonMissoula$38K
- Matthew KopplinBillings$35K
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.