Richard Montgomery, MD
Surgery · Bardstown, KYNPI 1326066648
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (33.8%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 55.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,951 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $63 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in KY 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.
Across 92 payments — averaging $225.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- Davol Inc.$3K
- Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Baxter Healthcare$221
- plus $378 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,80023%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7504%
- Travel & lodging$3,71018%
- Food & beverage$4,45221%
- Education$7,00034%
- Gifts$280%
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 | 23 | $11,506 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 15 | $3,326 |
| Davol Inc. | 30 | $2,675 |
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 4 | $1,600 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,035 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $221 |
| Stryker | 1 | $134 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $92 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $38 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $38 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $25 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $12 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$11,157
- ULTRAPRO Products$853
- PROCEED Products$853
- Phasix Mesh$610
- PHASIX$523
- BD MAX$383
- XenMatrix Surgical Graft$147
- XENMATRIX$135
- SPY TECHNOLOGY$134
- DERMABOND Portfolio$119
- STRATAFIX$119
- TISSEEL$108
How this compares
$20,740 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 377 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.
Other surgery in Bardstown
- Robert FarrellBardstown$20K
- Eric SmithAshland$1.1M
- John RothLexington$820K
- John OldhamLouisville$515K
- George MundayDanville$271K
- Amber KoonHenderson$210K
- Frank MillerLouisville$119K
- Jared DavisLouisville$89K
- Aaron HouseCorbin$79K
- James WatkinsCampbellsville$70K
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.