Device Surgery

V. Mueller

Payments companies reported to CMS as associated with V. Mueller. "Associated with" is CMS's wording: it links a payment to a product without saying the money was spent on it.

$95Kassociated payments (2023-2025)
9clinicians with associated payments
3companies reporting

By year

2023 $94K
2024 $325

Payments reported as associated with V. Mueller, per program year, as reported to CMS.

Who makes it

Specialties most often involved

Gastroenterology (Internal Medicine) $66K
Plastic Surgery $8,248
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) $7,101
Neurological Surgery $6,015

Where the associated payments went, by the receiving clinician's specialty.

Clinicians most associated with V. Mueller

These are the largest totals companies reported as associated with V. Mueller. They are typically speaking or consulting arrangements, which companies must report by law; appearing here is not evidence of anything improper.

ClinicianLocationSpecialtyAssociated payments (2023-2025)
Albert Rhoton High Point, NC Gastroenterology (Internal Medicine) $65,562.73
John Tebbetts Dallas, TX Plastic Surgery $8,248.28
John Mc Kernan Woodstock, GA $6,667.67
Robert Spetzler Phoenix, AZ Neurological Surgery $5,689.44
Walter Chitwood Greenville, NC Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) $3,911.92
Delos Cosgrove Cleveland, OH Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) $3,189.21
Noel Mills New Orleans, LA $997.66
Christopher Holland Concord, NC Neurological Surgery $309.86
Venita Simpson Norfolk, VA Neurological Surgery $15.43

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.