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

James Lindley

Neurological Surgery Savannah, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1205825338 CMS profile 282108

4 E Jackson Blvd, Savannah, GA 31405

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General payments

$24,424

122 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$44,797 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2024

Through program year 2025, James Lindley of Savannah, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $24,424 across 122 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $44,797 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. 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 80th percentile of Neurological Surgery 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 $722 29
2024 General $281 9
2023 General $114 4
2022 General $4,850 9
2021 General $5,268 33
2020 General $6,183 16
2019 General $7,006 22

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to James Lindley were reported at $722. Among 5,467 Neurological Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $596 and the middle half received between $159 and $3,102.

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Year James Lindley Neurological Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $7,006 $582 $138–$3,006 $163
2020 $6,183 $294 $76–$2,174 $114
2021 $5,268 $387 $105–$2,432 $132
2022 $4,850 $542 $139–$2,989 $149
2023 $114 $534 $145–$2,697 $160
2024 $281 $574 $155–$3,046 $164
2025 $722 $596 $159–$3,102 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Globus Medical, Inc. $16,047 12 payments
  2. MiRus, LLC $6,133 4 payments
  3. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,431 75 payments
  4. Acera Surgical, Inc. $139 1 payment
  5. Cerapedics, Inc. $130 12 payments
  6. Stryker Corporation $129 2 payments
  7. Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $100 1 payment
  8. Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. $69 2 payments
  9. Medtronic USA, Inc. $42 2 payments
  10. Abbott Laboratories $36 2 payments
  11. Other $170 9 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $19,130 11 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $3,000 3 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $2,064 95 payments
  4. Education $230 13 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. TRANSITION Spine $11,220 6 payments
  2. CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate $6,133 4 payments
  3. EUROPA Pedicle Screw System $6,133 4 payments
  4. TRANSITION Spine/Joint $4,778 4 payments
  5. RIGEL 3DR Cervical Interbody $3,133 1 payment
  6. IO Expandable Lumbar Interbody $3,133 1 payment
  7. MiRus 3DR Lumbar Interbody System $3,133 1 payment
  8. WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16 $473 27 payments
  9. GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT $211 11 payments
  10. Restrata Wound Matrix $139 1 payment
  11. Other $1,396 85 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 · 14 drugs

Part D claims

1,116

Median for Neurosurgery: 83

Drug cost

$13,598

Median for Neurosurgery: $872

Branded share of claims

59.6%

Median for Neurosurgery: 16.5%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 384 $5,484
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 270 $4,530
Gabapentin Generic 84 $1,373
Cephalexin Generic 67 $487
Tramadol Hcl Generic 83 $437
Pregabalin Generic 17 $250
Methylprednisolone Generic 39 $190
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl Generic 33 $180
Tizanidine Hcl Generic 42 $161
Acetaminophen-Codeine Acetaminophen With Codeine Brand 11 $129

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 14 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 2,779 Part D prescribers listed as Neurosurgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 130 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$420,167

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

452

Average age 75

Services billed

2,987

241 women, 211 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 30%
Diabetes 26%
Chronic kidney disease 26%
Depression 24%
Atrial fibrillation 21%
Osteoporosis 20%

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

122 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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