Has Michael Miller, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,313,763 in general payments to Michael Miller, MD across 80 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 Michael Miller, 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 Michael Miller, 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.

Michael Miller, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Tucson, AZNPI 1114005253

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,304,273 of the $2,313,763 with a category attached, or 99.6%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $584,149 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $349 in 2025. Among adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AZ 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.

$2,313,763in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 80 payments — averaging $28,922 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$2.3M
Smith+Nephew$492
Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC$218
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$54
Stryker$50
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.$44
plus $137 from 7 others

$14,727in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $1132.85 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.

Zimmer Biomet$15K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$2,304,273100%
Consulting fees$6,8750%
Travel & lodging$1,0850%
Food & beverage$1,5300%

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
Zimmer Biomet	62	$2,312,768
Smith+Nephew	5	$492
Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC	2	$218
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$54
Stryker	1	$50
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.	1	$44
Johnson & Johnson	1	$28
Lifenet Health	1	$24
Davol Inc.	1	$23
Baudax Bio Inc.	1	$19
Nevro Corp.	1	$19
Pfizer	1	$14
Team_makena_llc	1	$10

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

$2,313,763 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 43 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$389,894

Medicare patients

514

Services billed

4,075

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
Celecoxib	131	$7,342
Doxycycline Hyclate	15	$669
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	12	$647
Oxycodone Hcl	87	$471
Cephalexin	26	$305
Gabapentin	21	$292
Tramadol Hcl	76	$283
Meloxicam	51	$232
Clindamycin Hcl	16	$197
Amoxicillin	102	$169
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	13	$134
Zolpidem Tartrate	12	$89
Methylprednisolone	15	$84

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Tucson

Russell CohenTucson$970K
Abigail HamiltonTucson$150K
John MaltryTucson$58K
Gens GoodmanTucson$7K
Edward PetrowTucson$3K
Steven MyerthallGilbert$691K
Salvatore LacognataGilbert$445K
Lige KaplanPhoenix$327K
Paul SousaBuckeye$70K
John ThompsonSun City$64K

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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.

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