Justin Hilliard, MD
Neurological Surgery · Lexington, KYNPI 1144584095
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $7,792 of the $8,038 with a category attached, or 96.9%. Turing Medical Technologies accounts for 78.3% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,151 and has fallen 89.5% since, to $750 in 2025.
Across 9 payments — averaging $893.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Turing Medical Technologies$6K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$54
- Olympus America Inc.$45
- Medtronic$19
Across 9 payments — averaging $2543.44 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.
- Insightec,ltd$17K
- Medtronic$6K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,79297%
- Food & beverage$2463%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Turing Medical Technologies | 2 | $6,292 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $1,629 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $54 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
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.
- VERCISE$1,500
How this compares
$8,038 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 99 neurological surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 Lexington
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- David DornbosLexington$35K
- Saman SizdahkhaniLexington$29K
- Rouzbeh Motiei LangroudiLexington$25K
- Ryan HoflerLexington$12K
- Justin FraserLexington$10K
- John GilbertLexington$4K
- Nessa TimoneyLexington$4K
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.