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Industry payments to physicians · Montana · 2024

Montana

In Montana, drug and device makers reported $3M in general payments to 2,667 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $981 each — plus $13M tied to research and $84,846 in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.
$3M
general payments
2,667
covered recipients paid
$981
mean per physician

Top specialties in Montana

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Pediatric Hematology-Oncology $449,052
Nurse Practitioner $229,230
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) $124,508
Family $109,250
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery $100,222
Physician Assistant $90,420
Surgery $87,604
Neurological Surgery $80,176
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine $77,578
General Practice $76,433
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology $70,769
Orthopaedic Surgery $67,248

Highest-paid physicians in Montana

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Guy Young Pediatric Hematology-Oncology · Bozeman · top payer: Genzyme Corporation $449,052
Sarah Berg Nurse Practitioner · Missoula · top payer: Galderma Laboratories, L.P. $122,933
Carlos Duran Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Missoula · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $91,523
Arlon Bennett Nurse Practitioner · Missoula · top payer: Jubilant HollisterStier LLC $77,699
Dean Sukin Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Bozeman · top payer: Medacta USA, Inc. $73,616
Jeffrey Rentz Unspecified · Billings · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $52,445
Raymond Turner Neurological Surgery · Billings · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $52,147
Melissa Robinson Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Missoula · top payer: Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $48,504
Kristin Scott-Tillery Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Billings · top payer: Genzyme Corporation $43,211
Joseph Peila Internal Medicine · Billings · top payer: Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $36,149
Anthony Russo Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Great Falls · top payer: Globus Medical, Inc. $35,156
Kimberly Blakeslee Family Medicine · Missoula · top payer: Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $30,516
Katie Brennan Primary Care · Helena · top payer: Galderma Laboratories, L.P. $30,287
Nicholas Burnham Emergency Medicine · Great Falls · top payer: Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $27,684
Erin Amato Psychiatry · Billings · top payer: Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $26,817
Daniel Spoon Interventional Cardiology · Missoula · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $26,422
Troy Stiles Psychiatry · Billings · top payer: Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $24,712
Anthony Roccisano Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Billings · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $23,322
John Werner Orthopaedic Surgery · Missoula · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $20,215
Amanda Murray Family · Great Falls · top payer: Urgo Medical North America, LLC $19,576
Barrie Matthews General Practice · Miles City · top payer: BioHorizons Implant Systems Inc. $18,351
Julie Adams Hand Surgery · Kalispell · top payer: Stryker Corporation $18,228
Anthony Caffarelli Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Missoula · top payer: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $17,145
Russell Swan Ophthalmology · Bozeman · top payer: Glaukos Corporation $16,700
Stacey Johnson Community Health · Great Falls · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $15,630

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Montana — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.