Has Tysen Timmer, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $15,944 in general payments to Tysen Timmer, MD across 93 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 Tysen Timmer, 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 Tysen Timmer, 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.

Tysen Timmer, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Great Falls, MTNPI 1134614019

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $9,757 of the $15,944 with a category attached, or 61.2%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 95.7% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,934, more than ten times the $17 reported in 2022.

$15,944in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 93 payments — averaging $171.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$15K
Stryker$425
Johnson & Johnson$241
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$23

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$9,75761%
Food & beverage$5,66436%
Education$5223%

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
Zimmer Biomet	84	$15,254
Stryker	6	$425
Johnson & Johnson	2	$241
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	1	$23

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

$15,944 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 76 orthopaedic surgery providers in Montana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$72,485

Medicare patients

150

Services billed

1,343

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
Meloxicam	20	$33

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Great Falls

Jace BullardGreat Falls$29K
Michael HeldGreat Falls$6K
Michael BryantGreat Falls$2K
Gregg PikeGreat Falls$1K
John AveryGreat Falls$359
Nicholas BonfilioGreat Falls$313
Brian DrakeBillings$84K
Daniel WhitingMissoula$39K
Daniel DixonMissoula$38K
Matthew KopplinBillings$35K

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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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