Medical Doctor Program year 2024 Reported 2021–2024 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

James Roberson

Rheumatology Clinton, MD Medical Doctor

NPI 1003918558 CMS profile 317820

8926 Woodyard Rd, Suite #601, Clinton, MD 20735

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General payments

$4,610

157 records reported · program years 2021–2024

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2024

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2024, James Roberson of Clinton, MD is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,610 across 157 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 59th percentile of Rheumatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

4 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2024 General $1,182 58
2023 General $672 33
2022 General $2,462 52
2021 General $293 14

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to James Roberson were reported at $0. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.

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Year James Roberson Rheumatology median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $744 $153–$2,687 $163
2020 $0 $462 $98–$2,027 $114
2021 $293 $531 $101–$2,153 $132
2022 $2,462 $627 $125–$2,303 $149
2023 $672 $741 $145–$2,524 $160
2024 $1,182 $830 $166–$2,660 $164
2025 $0 $903 $171–$2,775 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2024
  1. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $2,242 43 payments
  2. UCB, Inc. $458 23 payments
  3. AbbVie, Inc. $365 20 payments
  4. Amgen Inc. $342 22 payments
  5. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $229 9 payments
  6. Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. $208 7 payments
  7. Lilly USA, LLC $175 8 payments
  8. Pfizer Inc. $111 5 payments
  9. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $101 4 payments
  10. IBSA Pharma Inc. $97 5 payments
  11. Other $282 11 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2024
  1. Food and Beverage $3,053 151 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $1,500 1 payment
  3. Education $57 5 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2024
  1. TREMFYA $2,209 40 payments
  2. SIMPONI ARIA $1,590 7 payments
  3. Cimzia $458 23 payments
  4. BENLYSTA $229 9 payments
  5. UBRELVY $223 10 payments
  6. Enbrel $220 14 payments
  7. LUPKYNIS $208 7 payments
  8. TALTZ $175 8 payments
  9. QULIPTA $134 7 payments
  10. COSENTYX $101 4 payments
  11. Other $986 52 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 · 43 drugs

Part D claims

2,532

Median for Rheumatology: 1,511

Drug cost

$1,948,743

Median for Rheumatology: $1,139,948

Branded share of claims

29.2%

Median for Rheumatology: 28.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Humira(Cf) Pen Adalimumab Brand 74 $712,289
Tremfya Guselkumab Brand 27 $371,600
Enbrel Sureclick Etanercept Brand 33 $311,290
Humira(Cf) Adalimumab Brand 22 $159,494
Xeljanz Tofacitinib Citrate Brand 25 $153,807
Cosentyx Sensoready Pen Secukinumab Brand 13 $94,197
Teriparatide Generic 12 $32,486
Prolia Denosumab Brand 15 $25,788
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate Generic 402 $17,723
Mycophenolate Mofetil Generic 24 $9,366

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 43 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 5,224 Part D prescribers listed as Rheumatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 38 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$212,107

Of which drugs: $110,045

Medicare patients

490

Average age 73

Services billed

8,535

429 women, 61 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 38%
Chronic kidney disease 28%
Osteoporosis 26%
Ischemic heart disease 17%
Cancer 14%
Depression 13%
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, denosumab, 1 mg J0897 Office 35 2,760 $56,449
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 153 1,500 $1,089

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 18 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
TREMFYA
  • Janssen Biotech, Inc. $251
$251 27 —
Cimzia
  • UCB, Inc. $166
$166 — —
Enbrel
  • Amgen Inc. $100
$101 33 —
QULIPTA
  • AbbVie, Inc. $88
$88 — —
COSENTYX
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $84
$84 13 —

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

157 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 2024

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

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