Has Kristopher Lyon, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,459 in general payments to Kristopher Lyon, MD across 99 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 Kristopher Lyon, 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 Kristopher Lyon, 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.

Kristopher Lyon, MD

Neurological Surgery · Abilene, TXNPI 1194171918

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,459in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 99 payments — averaging $105.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$2K
Globus Medical$2K
Si-bone, Inc.$2K
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$2K
Aesculap, Inc.$1K
Stryker$1K
plus $806 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$5,68854%
Food & beverage$4,58244%
Education$1892%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	29	$2,280
Globus Medical	7	$1,848
Si-bone, Inc.	15	$1,619
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	9	$1,532
Aesculap, Inc.	17	$1,361
Stryker	11	$1,013
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	2	$235
LEO Pharma Inc.	1	$165
Monteris Medical Corporation	1	$152
Nevro Corp.	1	$143
Imperative Care, Inc	5	$79
Qapel Medical Inc	1	$32

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

$10,459 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$198,834

Medicare patients

231

Services billed

672

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	64	$761
Methocarbamol	54	$468

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Abilene

John DormanOdessa$8.5M
Daniel PetersonAustin$5.8M
Daniel CurryHouston$3M
Peter KanGalveston$1.8M
Mirza BaigShenandoah$1.6M
Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
Douglas FoxAustin$948K
Richard MeyratDallas$883K
Adam LewisCorpus Christi$851K

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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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