Michael Mueller
Interventional Pain Medicine · Pinehurst, NCNPI 1326492513
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (56.7%), travel and lodging and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.3%.
Across 79 payments — averaging $70.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Curonix LLC$1K
- Nevro Corp.$855
- Medtronic$828
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$690
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$525
- Boston Scientific$429
- plus $1K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$3136%
- Travel & lodging$2,07637%
- Food & beverage$3,15757%
- Education$230%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Curonix LLC | 14 | $1,185 |
| Nevro Corp. | 12 | $855 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 13 | $828 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 5 | $690 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 4 | $525 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $429 |
| Abbott | 11 | $381 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 3 | $154 |
| Stryker | 1 | $143 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $131 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $101 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$868
- StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$628
- StimQ Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US Receiver$628
- StimQ Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$628
- Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$628
- Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$628
- Omnia$462
- SPRINT PNS System$371
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$203
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$162
- SYNCHROMEDII$151
- SPINEJACK$143
- Senza$128
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$128
- Evoke$106
- mild Device Kit$104
- OFIRMEV$101
How this compares
$5,569 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 45 interventional pain medicine providers in North Carolina.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 53 | $523 |
| Pregabalin | 28 | $345 |
| Diazepam | 15 | $8 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Pinehurst
- Timothy ChafinAhoskie$59K
- Robert WilsonSalisbury$37K
- John MansfieldAsheville$25K
- Erin ChaneyJacksonville$22K
- Kevin CostelloGreenville$22K
- Scott JohnstonJacksonville$20K
- Harsh GovilStatesville$19K
- Troy GingerichCharlotte$19K
- Brent HarkriderNew Bern$14K
- Carey-Walter ClossonCharlotte$14K
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.