Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.
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Michael Strong, MD, PHD

Individual provider Neurological Surgery Physician · NPI 1386178119

Michael Strong, MD, PHD practises Neurosurgery in Austell, Georgia. Qualified in 2017, 9 years ago. Practices with Wellstar Medical Group LLC, a 3,072-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in Georgia, Michigan and New York.

Years since qualifying
9
Licensed in
GA, MI, NY
In the registry since
2017
Specialties on file
3
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.
PHD — Doctor of Philosophy
A research doctorate. In healthcare it usually sits alongside a clinical licence.

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Practice location Address checks out

1700 Hospital South Dr Ste 102
Austell, GA 30106-8116
Phone: (470) 956-4410
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Specialties & licences

Neurological Surgery Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207T00000X · Licence 105351 (GA)
Neurological Surgery Physician Taxonomy 207T00000X · Licence 4301111904 (MI)
Orthopaedic Surgery Physician Taxonomy 207X00000X · Licence 327326 (NY)

Record details

NPI number1386178119
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD , PHD
Sole proprietorYes
NPI enumeratedApril 19, 2017
Last updated in NPPESAugust 15, 2025
Certification dateAugust 15, 2025

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyNEUROSURGERY
Medical schoolOTHER
Graduated 2017 (9 years in practice)
Group practice Wellstar Medical Group Llc — 3072 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
Practice locations7 on file with Medicare

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Spinal fusion 71 times · 64th percentile
Laminectomy or laminotomy (partial removal of spine bones) 17 times · 44th percentile
Removal of tissue 1–10 times

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients28
Services billed 144 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age74

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Travel and Lodging $6,396 24 payments · travel or lodging paid or reimbursed, such as to attend a conference
Food and Beverage $2,482 36 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

Also affiliated with 1 long-term care hospital, which CMS identifies by certification number only.

Colleagues at Wellstar Medical Group LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 3072 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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