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

James Jolley

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Chattanooga, TN Medical Doctor

NPI 1457392433 CMS profile 20807

281 N Lyerly St Ste 300, Chattanooga, TN 37404

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General payments

$231,120

331 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$3,000

Paid to them · 1 record reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, James Jolley of Chattanooga, TN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $231,120 across 331 general payments and $3,000 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 85th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $10,669 41
2024 General $17,085 53
2024 Research $3,000 1
2023 General $33,450 46
2022 General $28,530 32
2021 General $49,007 70
2020 General $36,077 40
2019 General $56,301 49

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to James Jolley were reported at $10,669. 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 Jolley Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median Middle half National median
2019 $56,301 $2,106 $337–$18,608 $163
2020 $36,077 $1,213 $156–$15,082 $114
2021 $49,007 $1,834 $271–$15,617 $132
2022 $28,530 $2,015 $320–$17,036 $149
2023 $33,450 $1,925 $336–$14,599 $160
2024 $17,085 $2,110 $341–$12,483 $164
2025 $10,669 $2,061 $347–$14,651 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Precision Spine, Inc. $120,350 22 payments
  2. Spineart SA $45,387 26 payments
  3. Medical Investment Advisors LLC $30,300 11 payments
  4. Globus Medical, Inc. $26,448 28 payments
  5. Intrinsic Therapeutics $942 14 payments
  6. Medtronic, Inc. $875 61 payments
  7. Zimvie Inc. $749 2 payments
  8. Stryker Corporation $677 11 payments
  9. Intelivation Technologies, LLC $500 1 payment
  10. Spinefrontier, Inc. $479 2 payments
  11. Other $4,413 153 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $180,968 73 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $40,986 5 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $9,166 253 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Reform Modular Orthopedics $60,902 7 payments
  2. Reform Modular Orthopedics $34,665 4 payments
  3. Reform Ti Modular Orthopedics $34,665 4 payments
  4. PERLA C $28,286 3 payments
  5. Reform Ti Modular Orthopedics $24,043 5 payments
  6. Reform Pedicle Screw System $23,804 3 payments
  7. ELSA ATP $11,019 9 payments
  8. CURE LP - ANTERIOR LUMBAR PLATE $7,075 2 payments
  9. ELSA Spine/Spine Surgery $4,893 4 payments
  10. ELSA Spine/Spine Surgery $3,586 5 payments
  11. Other $26,520 296 payments

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

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Intrinsic Therapeutics $3,000 1 payment

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 12 drugs

Part D claims

618

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$5,140

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

26.1%

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
Gabapentin Generic 109 $1,476
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 78 $907
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 83 $747
Pregabalin Generic 68 $710
Tramadol Hcl Generic 70 $323
Ondansetron Hcl Generic 62 $274
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl Generic 57 $206
Hydromorphone Hcl Generic 30 $174
Methylprednisolone Generic 13 $117
Tizanidine Hcl Generic 21 $111

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 12 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 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 · 65 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$140,613

Of which drugs: $569

Medicare patients

256

Average age 74

Services billed

1,442

155 women, 101 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%
Ischemic heart disease 36%
Diabetes 35%
Chronic kidney disease 30%
Depression 30%
Osteoporosis 25%
COPD 24%
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, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 69 784 $569

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

2 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
Zilretta
  • Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $9
$9 — —
Exparel
  • Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $9
$9 — —

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.

Records

332 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

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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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