Kevin Grullon, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1295976645
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.2% of the total across 18 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. accounts for 68.6% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 18 payments — averaging $31.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$385
- Boehringer Ingelheim$66
- GSK$29
- Mylan Specialty L.p.$24
- United Therapeutics Corporation$21
- Baxter Healthcare$19
- plus $17 from 1 others
Across 118 payments — averaging $5231.14 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.
- GSK$235K
- Merck$114K
- Shionogi Inc$87K
- Bayer$72K
- Novartis$57K
- AstraZeneca$39K
- plus $13K from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$54096%
- Education$214%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 6 | $385 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $66 |
| GSK | 2 | $29 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $24 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Inspire$170
How this compares
$562 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 261 pulmonary disease 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 314 | $330,774 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 130 | $79,499 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 82 | $42,982 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 51 | $37,319 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 33 | $21,473 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 13 | $15,951 |
| SunosiSolriamfetol Hcl | 14 | $14,780 |
| Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 25 | $8,523 |
| DuleraMometasone/Formoterol | 11 | $6,793 |
| Modafinil | 32 | $4,867 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 29 | $4,732 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 89 | $3,493 |
| Striverdi RespimatOlodaterol Hcl | 12 | $2,938 |
| Armodafinil | 33 | $2,098 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 11 | $1,944 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta | $29 | $453,255526 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimSpiriva Respimat, Stiolto Respimat, Striverdi Respimat | $66 | $61,73096 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere | $17 | $15,95113 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 65th percentile of 261 pulmonary disease providers in Minnesota.
Other pulmonary disease in Minneapolis
- Marshall HertzMinneapolis$289K
- David IngbarMinneapolis$272K
- Jonathan HovdaMinneapolis$139K
- Hyun KimMinneapolis$77K
- Grady HedstromMinneapolis$50K
- Joseph KeenanMinneapolis$37K
- Mitchell KayeMinneapolis$24K
- Jennifer WongMinneapolis$12K
- Patrick WrightMinneapolis$10K
- Abdallah AbboudMinneapolis$9K
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.