Michael Heilig, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Richmond, KYNPI 1811958291
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,200 of the $1,690 with a category attached, or 71.0%. Legacy Ortho LLC accounts for 71.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,283 and has fallen 92.8% since, to $93 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in KY, where the typical reported total is $5,371.
Across 32 payments — averaging $52.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Legacy Ortho LLC$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$190
- Amgen$82
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$72
- Radius Health, Inc.$48
- Vertex$43
- plus $56 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$49029%
- Education$1,20071%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Legacy Ortho LLC | 1 | $1,200 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $190 |
| Amgen | 5 | $82 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Vertex | 2 | $43 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $24 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,690 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 322 orthopaedic 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 88 | $5,263 |
| Celecoxib | 111 | $3,253 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 80 | $2,560 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 83 | $551 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 86 | $533 |
| Meloxicam | 158 | $308 |
| Methocarbamol | 32 | $249 |
| Ibuprofen | 43 | $148 |
| Ropinirole Hcl | 21 | $103 |
| Naproxen | 12 | $55 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $37 |
| Ibandronate Sodium | 11 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Richmond
- Arthur MalkaniLouisville$9.6M
- Jonathan YerasimidesLouisville$4.3M
- John LewisLouisville$1.5M
- Akbar NawabLouisville$1M
- Samer HasanCrestview Hills$976K
- Phillip SingerBowling Green$816K
- Brent MorrisLexington$815K
- Joseph GreeneLouisville$581K
- Raymond GreiweFlorence$546K
- Clint HillPaducah$516K
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.