Chad Miller, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1235113895
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,698 of the $2,373 with a category attached, or 71.5%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Vilex LLC at 28.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $929 and has fallen 84.8% since, to $141 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for foot & ankle surgery clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $2,814.
Across 69 payments — averaging $34.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vilex LLC$675
- Smith+Nephew$316
- Stryker$231
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$183
- Amgen$163
- Legacy Ortho LLC$140
- plus $666 from 20 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $4734.17 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.
- C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$28K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$67528%
- Food & beverage$1,69872%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vilex LLC | 2 | $675 |
| Smith+Nephew | 10 | $316 |
| Stryker | 6 | $231 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 11 | $183 |
| Amgen | 4 | $163 |
| Legacy Ortho LLC | 1 | $140 |
| Convatec Inc. | 4 | $103 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 6 | $90 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $67 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $58 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 2 | $30 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $19 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $18 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- HINTERMANN$675
- Grafix PL PRIME$125
- Stravix$125
- KRYSTEXXA$118
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$112
- GRAVITY$112
How this compares
$2,373 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 429 foot & ankle surgery providers in Ohio.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 80 | $1,977 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 102 | $994 |
| Ketoconazole | 33 | $712 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 49 | $621 |
| Cefdinir | 15 | $351 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 13 | $344 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 17 | $201 |
| Prednisone | 63 | $182 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $116 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Cincinnati
- Robert BrarensCincinnati$108K
- Timothy WylieCincinnati$22K
- Casie BlantonCincinnati$17K
- Christopher HyerWorthington$4.7M
- Thomas LeePickerington$4M
- Jordan GrossmanAkron$2.5M
- Robert GorslineHilliard$1.4M
- Jonathan FeibelGahanna$1.4M
- Mark PrisselWorthington$1.2M
- Lee HladGahanna$440K
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.