Has Mi Mi Kim, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,783 in general payments to Mi Mi Kim, MD across 59 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Mi Mi Kim, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Mi Mi Kim, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Mi Mi Kim, MD

Anesthesiology · Slidell, LANPI 1295231942

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,495 of the $4,783 with a category attached, or 73.1%. It is spread thinly across 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.8%. Among anesthesiology clinicians in LA 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.

$4,783in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 59 payments — averaging $81.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$996
Abbott$847
Nevro Corp.$660
AOP Health US, LLC$501
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$408
Averitas Pharma Inc.$281
plus $1K from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,28927%
Food & beverage$3,49573%

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
Stryker	9	$996
Abbott	5	$847
Nevro Corp.	18	$660
AOP Health US, LLC	1	$501
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	4	$408
Averitas Pharma Inc.	3	$281
Medtronic	4	$235
Globus Medical	7	$231
Boston Scientific	3	$188
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	2	$159
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$130
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$121
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$27

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.

How this compares

$4,783 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 497 anesthesiology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$66,645

Medicare patients

186

Services billed

652

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	56	$1,104
Gabapentin	125	$998
Pregabalin	74	$922
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	77	$870
Methocarbamol	54	$444
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	18	$386
Tramadol Hcl	49	$208
Meloxicam	93	$139
Methylprednisolone	21	$138
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	27	$97
Nortriptyline Hcl	20	$96

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.