Stephen Miller
Surgery · Boston, MANPI 1720278690
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $876 of the $1,201 with a category attached, or 73.0%. Merck accounts for 98.3% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in MA, where the typical reported total is $1,048.
Across 10 payments — averaging $120.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$1K
- Axonics, Inc.$21
Across 145 payments — averaging $27,073 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.
- Eli Lilly$3.7M
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$233K
- Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$87673%
- Food & beverage$32527%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 9 | $1,180 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
How this compares
$1,201 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 694 surgery providers in Massachusetts.
Other surgery in Boston
- Michael TarnoffBoston$1.4M
- Omar KudsiBoston$886K
- Ankit MehtaBoston$278K
- Johannes KratzBoston$79K
- Ian BehrBoston$56K
- Parsia VagefiBoston$53K
- Abdelrahman NimeriBoston$50K
- Denise GeeBoston$40K
- Matthew HutterBoston$37K
- Barbara BlancoBoston$36K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.