Julie Pilitsis, MD
Neurological Surgery · Tucson, AZNPI 1861559163
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $107,530 of the $164,666 with a category attached, or 65.3%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 58.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $90,836 and has fallen 98.3% since, to $1,507 in 2025.
Across 277 payments — averaging $594.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$96K
- Nevro Corp.$26K
- Medtronic$19K
- Boston Scientific$11K
- Biogen$5K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
- plus $6K from 8 others
Across 192 payments — averaging $3345.53 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.
- Abbott$216K
- Nevro Corp.$188K
- Medtronic$84K
- Boston Scientific$58K
- Surgical Information Sciences, Inc.$37K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$36K
- plus $24K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$107,53065%
- Speaking & faculty fees$34,82521%
- Travel & lodging$16,35610%
- Food & beverage$5,9554%
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 | 141 | $95,685 |
| Nevro Corp. | 40 | $25,560 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 52 | $19,073 |
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $10,738 |
| Biogen | 6 | $5,170 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $2,633 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 3 | $2,131 |
| 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 |
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.
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$41,509
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$23,418
- Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$17,391
- INFINITY$15,483
- INTELLIS$15,422
- Prodigy Family of SCS IPGs$9,162
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$7,884
- Infinity DBS Pulse Generators$4,973
- IonicRF Generator$4,883
- VIPER$2,633
- PRIALT$1,977
- Omnia$1,553
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$1,375
- GENERAL DBS$1,193
- DELTA$782
- ASCENDA$778
- ETERNA$148
- UNIVERSAL NEURO 3$136
- ACTIVA$130
- Octrode SCS Leads$126
How this compares
$164,666 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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$653K
- Ryan KretzerTucson$402K
- Paul LarsonTucson$96K
- Ibrahim AlhalalTucson$53K
- Timothy PuttyTucson$39K
- Ryan AustermanTucson$37K
- Kirsty HamiltonTucson$37K
- Arunit ChughTucson$14K
- Robert SpetzlerPhoenix$12.8M
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.