Michael Morone, MD
Neurological Surgery · Billings, MTNPI 1407954456
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,731 of the $3,255 with a category attached, or 83.9%. Sioux Surgical Inc accounts for 77.3% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,019, more than ten times the $172 reported in 2020. That places this record below the midpoint for neurological surgery clinicians in MT, where the typical reported total is $3,333.
Across 19 payments — averaging $171.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sioux Surgical Inc$3K
- Arthrex$447
- Medtronic$118
- Stryker$91
- Globus Medical$67
- Si-bone, Inc.$17
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,73184%
- Food & beverage$52416%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sioux Surgical Inc | 8 | $2,515 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $447 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $118 |
| Stryker | 2 | $91 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $67 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
How this compares
$3,255 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 31 neurological surgery providers in Montana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Billings
- Raymond TurnerBillings$1.3M
- Marlin RichardsonBillings$35K
- Stuart GoodmanBillings$14K
- Louis RossBillings$9K
- Jeffrey HakimBillings$9K
- Christopher StewartBillings$4K
- Vance FredricksonBillings$4K
- Mark PiedraBillings$2K
- William SpireBillings$1K
- Michael CopelandBillings$921
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.