Has Bruce Miller, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $69,353 in general payments to Bruce Miller, MD across 132 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 Bruce Miller, 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 Bruce Miller, 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.

Bruce Miller, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Kingsport, TNNPI 1740278225

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $59,020 of the $69,353 with a category attached, or 85.1%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 89.9% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $44,458 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $172 in 2025.

$69,353in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 132 payments — averaging $525.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$62K
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$4K
Arthrex$1K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
Stryker$132
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$109
plus $512 from 19 others

$67,300in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 30 payments — averaging $2243.33 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$67K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$59,02085%
Travel & lodging$7,26610%
Food & beverage$3,0674%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	59	$62,358
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	4	$3,869
Arthrex	14	$1,231
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	11	$1,143
Stryker	5	$132
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	8	$109
DJO, LLC	5	$90
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$57
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$36
Globus Medical	2	$33
Convatec Inc.	2	$32
AbbVie	2	$30
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	2	$30
Amgen(2 entities)	2	$26
Biocomposites Inc	1	$26
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$23
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$21
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$17
Medartis Inc.	1	$17
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$16
Linvatec Corporation	1	$15
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	1	$13
Bioventus LLC	1	$13
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$12
Medela LLC	1	$6

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.

ATTUNE$63,841
Velys$1,084
ACTIS$985

How this compares

$69,353 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 381 orthopaedic surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$166,168

Medicare patients

305

Services billed

8,073

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
Diclofenac Sodium	17	$1,167
Clindamycin Hcl	38	$757
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	51	$415
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	32	$392
Celecoxib	15	$369
Methylprednisolone	41	$361
Meloxicam	48	$340
Oxycodone Hcl	32	$231
Tramadol Hcl	42	$146
Amoxicillin	113	$118
Ondansetron Hcl	24	$107
Ibuprofen	19	$83
Gabapentin	13	$28

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Kingsport

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Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M
Alton HunterColumbia$820K
Jefferson MorrisonNashville$678K
Michael BeebeMemphis$626K
Gregory PolkowskiNashville$526K
Matthew WillisNashville$498K
Michael ChristieNashville$474K

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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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