Russell Miller, MD
Pulmonary Disease · San Diego, CANPI 1619175528
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $6,012 of the $9,488 with a category attached, or 63.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 64.8% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,488 and has fallen 87.8% since, to $425 in 2025.
Across 33 payments — averaging $287.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Olympus Medical Systems Corporation$1K
- Covidien LP$427
- Steris Corporation$387
- Olympus America Inc.$343
- Pinnacle Biologics, Inc$276
- plus $806 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,10012%
- Travel & lodging$3193%
- Food & beverage$2,05722%
- Education$6,01263%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $6,148 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corporation | 2 | $1,100 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $427 |
| Steris Corporation | 3 | $387 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 6 | $343 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 2 | $276 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 4 | $261 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $189 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $144 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $115 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,108
- ION$3,000
- superDimension$319
- Photofrin$276
- TRUFREEZE$233
- ILLUMISITE$135
- Pulmonx Endobronchial Valve EBV$133
- ACQUIRE$123
- ERBE$115
How this compares
$9,488 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,261 pulmonary disease providers in California.
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 pulmonary disease in San Diego
- George ChengSan Diego$291K
- Samir MakaniSan Diego$179K
- Shari BrazinskySan Diego$82K
- Samuel LouieSacramento$2.8M
- Shyamsunder SubramanianTracy$1.5M
- Toby MaherLos Angeles$1.3M
- Rajkumar DasguptaPasadena$930K
- Hoang leFountain Valley$814K
- Kevin FussellEncinitas$788K
- Revati ShreeniwasStanford$726K
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.