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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $60,900 in general payments to Michael Hill, MD across 119 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

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Saranac Lake, NYNPI 1104818244

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $44,989 of the $60,900 with a category attached, or 73.9%. Johnson & Johnson accounts for 72.7% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $29,007 and has fallen 62.8% since, to $10,804 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in NY 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.

$60,900in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 119 payments — averaging $511.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$44K
Intuitive Surgical$11K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
Medtronic$780
Standard Bariatrics, Inc.$243
Stryker$91
plus $580 from 14 others

$36,083in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $5154.77 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Johnson & Johnson$36K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$44,98974%
Travel & lodging$4,3617%
Food & beverage$2,6804%
Education$8,87115%

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
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	33	$44,273
Intuitive Surgical	41	$10,738
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	11	$4,197
Medtronic	7	$780
Standard Bariatrics, Inc.	3	$243
Stryker	2	$91
Apollo Endosurgery US Inc	1	$86
Teleflex LLC	2	$83
Ambu Inc.	2	$80
Novo Nordisk	3	$52
Covidien LP	1	$50
Boston Scientific	2	$46
Astellas Pharma US Inc	3	$42
Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$27
Cook Medical LLC	1	$22
Pulmonx Corporation	1	$21
Reshape Lifesciences Inc.	1	$21
Merck	1	$19
Smith+Nephew	1	$19
Endogastric Solutions, Inc	1	$12

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

$60,900 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$138,513

Medicare patients

346

Services billed

877

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
Sucralfate	84	$2,976
Pantoprazole Sodium	157	$1,097
Omeprazole	51	$493
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	49	$266

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Saranac Lake

Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
Gilbert TangNew York$842K
Michael ZervosNew York$811K
Israel JacobowitzBrooklyn$529K
Elias ZiasNew York$465K
Arthur MartellaRochester$431K
Isaac GeorgeNew York$395K
Eugene GrossiNew York$350K
John GoncalvesMineola$332K
Costas BizekisNew York$321K

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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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