Julie Pilitsis, MD
Neurological Surgery · Tucson, AZNPI 1861559163
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 453 payments — averaging $1682.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$312K
- Nevro Corp.$177K
- Medtronic$97K
- Boston Scientific$69K
- Surgical Information Sciences, Inc.$37K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$33K
- plus $38K from 10 others
Across 16 payments — averaging $2804.94 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Nevro Corp.$36K
- Medtronic$7K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$2K
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 249 | $311,545 |
| Nevro Corp. | 58 | $177,267 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 58 | $96,578 |
| Boston Scientific | 38 | $68,541 |
| Surgical Information Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $37,269 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 22 | $33,322 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 4 | $26,129 |
| Biogen | 6 | $5,170 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $2,633 |
| Insightec,inc | 2 | $2,000 |
| Stryker | 5 | $1,050 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $300 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $217 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $67 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $22 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $20 |
How this compares
$762,129 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 173 neurological surgery providers in Arizona.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Tucson
- Richard ChuaTucson$1.3M
- Li-Mei LinTucson$672K
- Paul LarsonTucson$521K
- Ryan KretzerTucson$402K
- Abhay SananTucson$229K
- Sergio RiveroTucson$226K
- Brian CallahanTucson$225K
- Travis DumontTucson$53K
- Ibrahim AlhalalTucson$53K
- Timothy PuttyTucson$39K
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.