James Miller, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Duluth, MNNPI 1346300019
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (56.4%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 66.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,170 and has fallen 80.3% since, to $821 in 2025.
Across 89 payments — averaging $83.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$539
- Zimmer Biomet$399
- KCI USA, Inc.$121
- Foundation Medical, LLC$105
- plus $197 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,01441%
- Food & beverage$4,19956%
- Education$2293%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 56 | $4,970 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 16 | $1,112 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $539 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $399 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 1 | $105 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $76 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $36 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
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.
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$1,571
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$575
- STERNALOCK$251
- Mosaic$245
- LigaSure$178
- RIBFIX BLU ADVANTAGE$124
- PREVENA$121
- V.A.C. VERAFLO$121
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$106
How this compares
$7,442 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 128 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Minnesota.
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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 Duluth
- Ryan ClarkDuluth$20K
- Hebroon ObaidDuluth$8K
- Vinayak BapatMinneapolis$792K
- Benjamin SunMinneapolis$443K
- Malakh ShresthaRochester$89K
- Juan CrestanelloRochester$56K
- Janani ReisenauerRochester$46K
- Louis JacquesEdina$36K
- Nader MoazamiMinneapolis$28K
- Sarah PalmerMinneapolis$28K
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.