Dale Mueller, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1598799942
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,771 of the $10,847 with a category attached, or 71.6%. 33 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abiomed at 24.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,559 and has fallen 55.0% since, to $1,152 in 2025.
Across 155 payments — averaging $69.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$3K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$763
- Medtronic$714
- Edwards Lifesciences$645
- plus $3K from 27 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $1087.50 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.
- Medtronic$2K
- Endologix LLC$325
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,90827%
- Food & beverage$7,77172%
- Education$1682%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 28 | $2,667 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 11 | $1,654 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 12 | $1,591 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 12 | $763 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 16 | $714 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 9 | $645 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 9 | $529 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 8 | $431 |
| Endologix LLC | 5 | $351 |
| Abbott | 2 | $309 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $172 |
| BD | 1 | $166 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $93 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $83 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $76 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $63 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $63 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 4 | $44 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| EKOS Corporation | 1 | $13 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $11 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Impella$1,872
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,151
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,109
- Monarch Platform$418
- Vasoview Hemopro 2$323
- Valiant Captivia$228
- KONECT RESILIA$170
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$168
- HemoSphere$166
- MitraClip System$163
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$157
- CentriMag$146
- PleuraFlow$146
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$133
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$113
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$102
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$102
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$102
How this compares
$10,847 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.
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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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Jacksonville
- John PirrisJacksonville$640K
- Magdy El-Sayed AhmedJacksonville$209K
- Chadwick StoufferJacksonville$114K
- Christopher ScottJacksonville$111K
- Kenan YountJacksonville$74K
- Nathan BatesJacksonville$58K
- Elbert KuoJacksonville$55K
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Barry WintonLargo$687K
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$666K
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.