Has George Mueller received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $52,503 in general payments to George Mueller across 103 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 George Mueller 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 George Mueller 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.

George Mueller

Vascular Surgery · Boynton Beach, FLNPI 1912932153

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $35,425 of the $52,503 with a category attached, or 67.5%. Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. accounts for 92.5% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $29,986 and has fallen 97.9% since, to $643 in 2023. Among vascular surgery clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$52,503in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 103 payments — averaging $509.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$49K
C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$2K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$554
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$250
BD$158
Penumbra, Inc.$148
plus $385 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$10,67520%
Speaking & faculty fees$35,42567%
Travel & lodging$1,2472%
Food & beverage$5,13710%
Education$190%

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
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	74	$48,583
C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries	1	$2,425
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	12	$554
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	2	$250
BD	1	$158
Penumbra, Inc.	2	$148
Philips North America LLC	1	$111
Davol Inc.	1	$70
Inari Medical, Inc.	1	$56
Cook Medical LLC	2	$36
Johnson & Johnson	2	$35
Covidien LP	1	$33
EKOS Corporation	1	$17
BTG International Inc.	1	$16
TELA Bio, 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.

WAVELINQ$8,424
EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$268
LUTONIX$250
Peripheral Orbital Atherectomy System$250
Indigo System$133
(4067) Tack Endo Sys BTK$111

How this compares

$52,503 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 385 vascular surgery providers in Florida.

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Other vascular surgery in Boynton Beach

Aidan HammBoynton Beach$30K
Samuel TapperStuart$1.3M
Mariano ArosemenaBradenton$472K
Manuel Perez IzquierdoOrlando$302K
Erin MooreJacksonville$300K
Rajesh MalikNaples$237K
Charles BaileyTampa$162K
Joseph WasselleMelbourne$161K
Joseph RicottaDelray Beach$156K
Murray ShamesTampa$144K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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