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

James Hale

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Teaneck, NJ Medical Doctor

NPI 1528079654 CMS profile 114122

222 Cedar Lane, Suite 120, Teaneck, NJ 07666

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General payments

$128,202

65 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 Hale of Teaneck, NJ is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $128,202 across 65 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 79th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine 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 $12,450 10
2024 General $16,607 10
2023 General $19,582 4
2022 General $18,174 4
2021 General $14,470 19
2020 General $23,457 11
2019 General $23,461 7

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • James Hale
  • Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to James Hale were reported at $12,450. Among 1,704 Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles paid that year, the median was $2,061 and the middle half received between $347 and $14,651.

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Year James Hale Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median Middle half National median
2019 $23,461 $2,106 $337–$18,608 $163
2020 $23,457 $1,213 $156–$15,082 $114
2021 $14,470 $1,834 $271–$15,617 $132
2022 $18,174 $2,015 $320–$17,036 $149
2023 $19,582 $1,925 $336–$14,599 $160
2024 $16,607 $2,110 $341–$12,483 $164
2025 $12,450 $2,061 $347–$14,651 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. NuVasive, Inc. $98,972 43 payments
  2. Globus Medical, Inc. $29,058 20 payments
  3. Abbott Laboratories $148 1 payment
  4. Alphatec Spine, Inc $25 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $116,203 38 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $7,425 14 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $4,200 7 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $375 6 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. TLIF Spine/Spine Surgery $61,256 33 payments
  2. COHERE $50,596 13 payments
  3. TLIF Spine/Spine Surgery $46,918 18 payments
  4. FORGE Oblique $734 6 payments
  5. Proclaim IPG $148 1 payment

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 · 5 drugs

Part D claims

100

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$493

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

23%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 23 $257
Tramadol Hcl Generic 25 $82
Naproxen Generic 14 $56
Prednisone Generic 26 $54
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl Generic 12 $45

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 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 41 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$129,076

Of which drugs: $423

Medicare patients

360

Average age 76

Services billed

2,835

223 women, 137 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 75%
Diabetes 42%
Ischemic heart disease 36%
Osteoporosis 23%
Depression 21%
Cancer 20%
Atrial fibrillation 18%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 Office 32 1,720 $176

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

65 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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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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