James Miner
Emergency Medicine · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1588607576
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $50,182 of the $70,349 with a category attached, or 71.3%. Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. accounts for 86.5% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $52,322 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $52 in 2022. Among emergency medicine clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 85 payments — averaging $827.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$61K
- Biomerieux Inc$9K
- Mindray DS USA, Inc.$52
- Avanos Medical$20
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$50,18271%
- Travel & lodging$18,79727%
- Food & beverage$1,3712%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 80 | $60,837 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 3 | $9,441 |
| Mindray DS USA, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $20 |
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.
- DSUVIA$59,764
- NEPHROCHECK TEST$9,441
How this compares
$70,349 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,017 emergency medicine providers in Minnesota.
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 emergency medicine in Minneapolis
- Brian DriverMinneapolis$24K
- Robert ReardonMinneapolis$14K
- Marc MartelMinneapolis$14K
- Stephen SmithMinneapolis$3K
- Michael ShinMinneapolis$3K
- Carter CasmaerMinneapolis$3K
- Erin KarlMinneapolis$839
- Barrett WagnerMinneapolis$813
- Evan KirschnerMinneapolis$700
- John SvenningsenMinneapolis$659
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.