Christopher Miller, MD
Neurological Surgery · Kansas City, KSNPI 1639598832
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $15,000 of the $19,542 with a category attached, or 76.8%. Boston Scientific accounts for 76.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $15,615 and has fallen 95.5% since, to $696 in 2025.
Across 81 payments — averaging $241.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$15K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Abbott$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Nevro Corp.$498
- Spineology Inc.$161
- plus $305 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$15,00077%
- Travel & lodging$1,2516%
- Food & beverage$3,29117%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $15,000 |
| Globus Medical | 9 | $1,325 |
| Abbott | 34 | $1,216 |
| Medtronic | 15 | $1,037 |
| Nevro Corp. | 13 | $498 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $161 |
| Neuropace, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Stryker | 4 | $66 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $64 |
| Insightec,inc | 1 | $47 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $24 |
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
$19,542 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 63 neurological surgery providers in Kansas.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Kansas City
- Frank HolladayKansas City$349K
- Koji EbersoleKansas City$123K
- Anthony AlvaradoKansas City$80K
- Jeremy PetersonKansas City$28K
- Justin DavisKansas City$24K
- Sarah WoodrowKansas City$21K
- Ifije OhiorhenuanKansas City$17K
- Michael KinsmanKansas City$12K
- Bailey YekzamanKansas City$3K
- Zihan MasoodKansas City$3K
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.