RxDoctor Payments Data

Steven Miller, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Gallipolis, OHNPI 1124009774

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (56.0%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 71.0% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,249 and has fallen 96.3% since, to $47 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $3,554.

$1,722in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $61.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$1K
  • Zimmer Biomet$194
  • Pfizer$149
  • Smith+Nephew$57
  • Solventum Corporation$24
  • Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$23
  • plus $53 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$67539%
  • Food & beverage$96456%
  • Education$835%

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

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Stryker11$1,223
Zimmer Biomet2$194
Pfizer8$149
Smith+Nephew1$57
Solventum Corporation1$24
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC1$23
Vertex1$22
AstraZeneca1$14
Vericel Corporation1$12
Kinex Medical Company LLC1$5

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

$1,722 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$49,146
Medicare patients
143
Services billed
412

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Meloxicam542$1,449
Celecoxib18$813
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen52$451
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen54$399
Methylprednisolone41$276
Oxycodone Hcl26$170
Omeprazole31$142
Tramadol Hcl17$58
Levofloxacin13$43
Cefadroxil16$42

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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