Has Marlin Richardson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $34,701 in general payments to Marlin Richardson, MD across 59 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 Marlin Richardson, 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 Marlin Richardson, 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.

Marlin Richardson, MD

Neurological Surgery · Billings, MTNPI 1467694844

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $25,141 of the $34,701 with a category attached, or 72.4%. Stryker accounts for 97.6% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $19,113 and has fallen 95.8% since, to $812 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in MT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$34,701in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 59 payments — averaging $588.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$34K
VB Spine LLC$812
Globus Medical$35

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$25,14172%
Travel & lodging$8,98026%
Food & beverage$5802%

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
Stryker	55	$33,854
VB Spine LLC	3	$812
Globus Medical	1	$35

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

$34,701 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 31 neurological surgery providers in Montana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$214,570

Medicare patients

127

Services billed

529

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
Pregabalin	11	$159
Mupirocin	12	$78

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Billings

Raymond TurnerBillings$1.3M
Stuart GoodmanBillings$14K
Louis RossBillings$9K
Jeffrey HakimBillings$9K
Christopher StewartBillings$4K
Vance FredricksonBillings$4K
Michael MoroneBillings$3K
Mark PiedraBillings$2K
William SpireBillings$1K
Michael CopelandBillings$921

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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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