Who Paid My Doc
James Cottom
Podiatrist Sarasota, FL Doctor of Podiatric Medicine
NPI 1720079163 CMS profile 924838
5741 Bee Ridge Rd Ste 490, Sarasota, FL 34233
General payments
$1,758,666
Research payments
$42,780
Ownership & investment interest
$187,763
Research they led as principal investigator
$54,438
Through program year 2025, James Cottom of Sarasota, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,758,666 across 740 general payments and $42,780 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $54,438 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $187,763 across 8 holdings.
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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Podiatrist profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
16 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $240,717 | 90 | |
| 2024 | General | $327,987 | 124 | |
| 2023 | General | $468,511 | 113 | |
| 2022 | General | $261,760 | 101 | |
| 2021 | General | $204,368 | 122 | |
| 2020 | General | $129,314 | 76 | |
| 2020 | Research | $12,288 | 4 | |
| 2019 | General | $126,009 | 114 | |
| 2019 | Research | $30,492 | 6 | |
| 2025 | Ownership | $37,763 | 2 | |
| 2024 | Ownership | $25,000 | 1 | |
| 2023 | Ownership | $25,000 | 1 | |
| 2022 | Ownership | $25,000 | 1 | |
| 2021 | Ownership | $25,000 | 1 | |
| 2020 | Ownership | $25,000 | 1 | |
| 2019 | Ownership | $25,000 | 1 |
Beside peers
- James Cottom
- Podiatrist median
- Middle half of Podiatrist
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to James Cottom were reported at $240,717. Among 4,572 Podiatrist profiles paid that year, the median was $260 and the middle half received between $94 and $777.
Show as a table
| Year | James Cottom | Podiatrist median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $126,009 | $196 | $72–$601 | $163 |
| 2020 | $129,314 | $118 | $38–$335 | $114 |
| 2021 | $204,368 | $169 | $57–$573 | $132 |
| 2022 | $261,760 | $220 | $74–$782 | $149 |
| 2023 | $468,511 | $208 | $71–$635 | $160 |
| 2024 | $327,987 | $237 | $87–$681 | $164 |
| 2025 | $240,717 | $260 | $94–$777 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 4 drugsPart D claims
135
Drug cost
$1,287
Branded share of claims
48.9%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | Brand | 54 | $809 | |
| Ondansetron Hcl | Generic | 38 | $222 | |
| Cephalexin | Generic | 31 | $216 | |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Potass Amoxicillin/Potassium Clav | Brand | 12 | $39 |
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 14,093 Part D prescribers listed as Podiatry; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 100 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$166,074
Medicare patients
288
Services billed
2,299
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| High blood pressure | 73% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 34% | |
| Diabetes | 27% | |
| Depression | 22% | |
| Osteoporosis | 22% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 20% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 16% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 | Office | 29 | 225 | $159 |
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.
Records
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.