Has Michael Hill, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,143 in general payments to Michael Hill, MD across 44 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 Michael Hill, 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 Michael Hill, 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.

Michael Hill, MD

Surgery · Billings, MTNPI 1962636167

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $12,500 of the $17,143 with a category attached, or 72.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 87.9% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,291 and has fallen 97.4% since, to $214 in 2025.

$17,143in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 44 payments — averaging $389.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$15K
Medtronic$1K
Stryker$823
Acell, Inc.$91
Johnson & Johnson$57
AbbVie$51
plus $47 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,33119%
Food & beverage$1,3138%
Education$12,50073%

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
Intuitive Surgical	28	$15,065
Medtronic	7	$1,011
Stryker	3	$823
Acell, Inc.	1	$91
Johnson & Johnson	1	$57
AbbVie	1	$51
Olympus America Inc.	2	$33
Vertex	1	$14

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

$17,143 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 96 surgery providers in Montana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$2,999

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf	38	$5,963
Sucralfate	16	$911
Omeprazole	42	$349
Pantoprazole Sodium	14	$328
Oxycodone Hcl	18	$66

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Eric DringmanBillings$14K
George BentzelBillings$12K
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Rachel OttBillings$5K
Barry McKenzieBillings$4K
John GregoryBillings$3K
Timothy DernbachBillings$1K

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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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