Has Ronald Miles, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $34,227 in general payments to Ronald Miles, MD across 122 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 Ronald Miles, 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 Ronald Miles, 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.

Ronald Miles, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Wausau, WINPI 1184656225

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $23,563 of the $34,227 with a category attached, or 68.8%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 73.7% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in WI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$34,227in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 122 payments — averaging $280.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$25K
Abbott$5K
Medtronic$1K
Atricure, Inc.$982
Cvrx, Inc.$947
Intuitive Surgical$303
plus $744 from 6 others

$9,000in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $9000.00 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.

Livanova USA, Inc.$9K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$23,56369%
Speaking & faculty fees$5001%
Travel & lodging$1,5885%
Food & beverage$8,53425%
Education$430%

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
Edwards Lifesciences	30	$25,226
Abbott	44	$4,706
Medtronic(2 entities)	13	$1,319
Atricure, Inc.	15	$982
Cvrx, Inc.	3	$947
Intuitive Surgical	5	$303
Artivion, Inc.	2	$217
Abiomed	3	$164
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	2	$126
Haemonetics Corporation	1	$98
Philips North America LLC	1	$83
Boston Scientific	3	$57

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.

Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$24,115
Epic$2,114
Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$1,015
Barostim Neo System$809
CoreValve Evolut$672
Epic Stented Tissue Valve$274
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$260
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$231
CARPENTIER-EDWARDS PERIMOUNT MAGNA PERICARDIAL BIOPROSTHESIS - AORTIC$139
ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$136
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$136
Da Vinci Surgical System$128
SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$125
Mitra Clip system$125
Tailor Flexible Ring and Band$123
NAVITOR$120
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$115
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$114
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$109
Octopus$100

How this compares

$34,227 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 97 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$139,322

Medicare patients

181

Services billed

409

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
Amiodarone Hcl	35	$505
Mupirocin	41	$318
Warfarin Sodium	13	$114
Metoprolol Succinate	13	$84
Potassium Chloride	12	$65
Amlodipine Besylate	17	$35
Furosemide	12	$26
Allopurinol	34	$25

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Wausau

John JohnkoskiWausau$124K
Amanda EilersWausau$28K
Stephen ThorpWausau$14K
Mario GasparriMilwaukee$516K
David DemosMilwaukee$446K
William TisolMilwaukee$339K
Ghulam MurtazaMadison$106K
Robert FerranteAppleton$73K
Robert WiechmannEau Claire$68K
Justin WatsonMadison$35K

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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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