James Mueller, MD
Anesthesiology · Dallas, TXNPI 1730135914
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,010 payments — averaging $629.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$635K
- CSL Behring$238
- Medtronic$164
- Grifols USA, LLC$117
- Pacira Cryotech Incorporated$105
- Vertex$84
- plus $122 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$246,03339%
- Speaking & faculty fees$278,85344%
- Travel & lodging$98,70516%
- Food & beverage$11,9322%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 997 | $634,692 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $238 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $164 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $117 |
| Pacira Cryotech Incorporated | 1 | $105 |
| Vertex | 1 | $84 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Amgen | 1 | $23 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 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.
- EXPAREL$618,586
- Zilretta$14,322
- Iovera$9,998
- Endurant$128
- Haegarda$121
- Thrombate III$117
- Kcentra$117
- IOVERA SYSTEM$105
How this compares
$635,523 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,899 anesthesiology providers in Texas.
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 anesthesiology in Dallas
- Peter SzmukDallas$631K
- Tiffany MoonDallas$606K
- Joseph HendrixDallas$476K
- Deryk WalshDallas$352K
- Umar KhanDallas$319K
- Gijo AlexDallas$279K
- Girish JoshiDallas$239K
- Peiman LahsaeiDallas$226K
- Kunal KaramchandaniDallas$131K
- Christina RiccioDallas$131K
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.