Kevin Miller, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Denver, CONPI 1679579551
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,179 of the $8,306 with a category attached, or 74.4%. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.8%. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in CO, where the typical reported total is $8,306.
Across 111 payments — averaging $74.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Abiomed$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$826
- Baxter Healthcare$259
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,12826%
- Food & beverage$6,17974%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 31 | $1,564 |
| Abiomed | 19 | $1,563 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 13 | $1,449 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 9 | $1,352 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 8 | $826 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $259 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $236 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 5 | $226 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $193 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $163 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Stryker | 3 | $87 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $76 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 2 | $60 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $23 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 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.
- Impella$1,191
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$738
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$615
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$475
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$409
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$405
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$393
- MitraClip System$324
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$282
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$202
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$202
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$196
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$196
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$134
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$132
- THORAFLEX HYBRID$132
- STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$129
- Epic$123
- Pleuraflow System with FlowGlide$114
- Avalus$110
How this compares
$8,306 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 72 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Colorado.
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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 Denver
- Jason ShofnosDenver$40K
- Jess JoymonDenver$35K
- Michael CoadyDenver$20K
- Richard OhyeDenver$5K
- Mark AmmonsDenver$3K
- John VosslerDenver$3K
- Myles GuberDenver$2K
- Max MitchellDenver$2K
- Hao PanLoveland$243K
- Patrick RudersdorfLakewood$235K
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.