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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,555 in general payments to Charles Miller, MD across 31 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 Charles 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 Charles 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.

Charles Miller, MD

Neurological Surgery · Richmond, VANPI 1013980036

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,717 of the $3,555 with a category attached, or 76.4%. Synaptive Medical Inc. accounts for 62.6% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,242 and has fallen 71.3% since, to $644 in 2025.

$3,555in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $114.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Synaptive Medical Inc.$2K
Globus Medical$742
AstraZeneca$295
Stryker$97
Medtronic$86
Boston Scientific$59
plus $49 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,71776%
Food & beverage$79822%
Education$401%

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
Synaptive Medical Inc.	7	$2,227
Globus Medical	11	$742
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	4	$295
Stryker	2	$97
Medtronic	2	$86
Boston Scientific	2	$59
AbbVie	1	$19
Ceribell, Inc.	1	$15
Abbott	1	$14

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

$3,555 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 156 neurological surgery providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$195,802

Medicare patients

219

Services billed

658

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
Baclofen	40	$649
Etodolac	16	$555
Dexamethasone	29	$555
Nortriptyline Hcl	34	$248
Tramadol Hcl	51	$181
Gabapentin	14	$150

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Ketan VermaRichmond$5K
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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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