Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

James Appelbaum

Neurology Kansas City, KS Medical Doctor

NPI 1063426369 CMS profile 3469

8919 Parallel Pkwy, Suite 440, Kansas City, KS 66112

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General payments

$15,224

1,040 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, James Appelbaum of Kansas City, KS is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $15,224 across 1,040 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 80th percentile of Neurology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $2,712 185
2024 General $2,739 175
2023 General $2,713 187
2022 General $2,224 145
2021 General $1,922 133
2020 General $1,411 111
2019 General $1,504 104

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • James Appelbaum
  • Neurology median
  • Middle half of Neurology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to James Appelbaum were reported at $2,712. Among 11,022 Neurology profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $118 and $2,344.

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Year James Appelbaum Neurology median Middle half National median
2019 $1,504 $474 $118–$2,177 $163
2020 $1,411 $367 $82–$2,309 $114
2021 $1,922 $438 $104–$2,547 $132
2022 $2,224 $442 $103–$2,388 $149
2023 $2,713 $464 $119–$2,312 $160
2024 $2,739 $468 $119–$2,323 $164
2025 $2,712 $457 $118–$2,344 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. UCB, Inc. $1,327 81 payments
  2. AbbVie, Inc. $1,246 143 payments
  3. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $1,185 109 payments
  4. EMD Serono, Inc. $1,177 76 payments
  5. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,111 66 payments
  6. Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. $887 50 payments
  7. Amgen Inc. $697 40 payments
  8. Biogen, Inc. $676 36 payments
  9. Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. $598 30 payments
  10. Pfizer Inc. $571 60 payments
  11. Other $5,749 349 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $14,968 1,036 payments
  2. Education $255 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. UBRELVY $955 115 payments
  2. INGREZZA $775 46 payments
  3. AIMOVIG $775 46 payments
  4. Briviact $699 44 payments
  5. KESIMPTA $642 35 payments
  6. ZEPOSIA $508 32 payments
  7. QULIPTA $505 58 payments
  8. NURTEC ODT $490 53 payments
  9. XYWAV $450 20 payments
  10. Austedo XR $405 27 payments
  11. Other $9,429 607 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 53 drugs

Part D claims

2,116

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$175,126

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

17.4%

Median for Neurology: 25.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Aimovig Autoinjector Erenumab-Aooe Brand 78 $66,062
Nurtec Odt Rimegepant Sulfate Brand 16 $24,832
Glatiramer Acetate Generic 12 $21,865
Xtampza Er Oxycodone Myristate Brand 16 $12,856
Butorphanol Tartrate Generic 54 $4,254
Lacosamide Generic 36 $3,813
Dilantin Phenytoin Sodium Extended Brand 24 $3,704
Levetiracetam Generic 105 $3,263
Gabapentin Generic 247 $3,262
Pregabalin Generic 103 $2,532

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 53 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 13,695 Part D prescribers listed as Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 27 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$68,333

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

336

Average age 74

Services billed

2,232

206 women, 130 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 57%
Diabetes 42%
Chronic kidney disease 40%
Depression 38%
Ischemic heart disease 36%
COPD 29%
Heart failure 28%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 29 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
XYWAV
$259 — —
KESIMPTA
$206 — —
INGREZZA
$203 — —
NURTEC ODT
$165 16 —
NUPLAZID
$147 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

1,040 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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