Kristopher Lyon, MD
Neurological Surgery · Abilene, TXNPI 1194171918
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (54.4%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 12 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.8%. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,731 and has fallen 87.1% since, to $352 in 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.
- FORTIFY$1,490
- Mariner$1,264
- NorthStar OCT$1,154
- PROGAV 2.0$882
- Shoreline RT$878
- iFuse Implant$720
- PERCEPT PC BRAINSENSE$717
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$326
- N/A$291
- Shoreline ACS$277
- MEDTRONIC REUSABLE INSTRUMENTS$189
- Neuroblate$152
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$148
- Senza$143
- CORE$140
- UNIVERSAL NEURO 3$140
- SONOPET IQ$140
- COALITION AGX / AGX RP$133
- O-ARM-Spine$128
- AESCULAP FF399R ADAPTOR$114
How this compares
$10,459 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 582 neurological surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 64 | $761 |
| Methocarbamol | 54 | $468 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Abilene
- Koijan KainthThe Woodlands$1.3M
- Luis DuarteSan Angelo$1.2M
- Douglas FoxAustin$948K
- Richard MeyratDallas$883K
- Adam LewisCorpus Christi$792K
- Arnold VardimanSan Antonio$687K
- Andrew RoeserHouston$660K
- Scott RobertsonRound Rock$606K
- Sabatino BiancoArlington$564K
- Rebecca StachniakPlano$561K
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.