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

James Williams

Cardiovascular Disease Columbus, MS Medical Doctor

NPI 1780657056 CMS profile 353687

3491 Bluecutt Road, Suite 3, Columbus, MS 39705

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General payments

$6,792

363 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 Williams of Columbus, MS is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $6,792 across 363 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 75th percentile of Cardiovascular Disease 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 $1,090 48
2024 General $1,130 50
2023 General $1,243 62
2022 General $926 51
2021 General $1,003 60
2020 General $627 38
2019 General $773 54

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to James Williams were reported at $1,090. Among 16,617 Cardiovascular Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $432 and the middle half received between $132 and $1,252.

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Year James Williams Cardiovascular Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $773 $450 $127–$1,392 $163
2020 $627 $242 $77–$751 $114
2021 $1,003 $335 $101–$1,037 $132
2022 $926 $395 $121–$1,211 $149
2023 $1,243 $443 $136–$1,283 $160
2024 $1,130 $450 $136–$1,323 $164
2025 $1,090 $432 $132–$1,252 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $833 43 payments
  2. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $748 47 payments
  3. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $677 43 payments
  4. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $606 34 payments
  5. Boston Scientific Corporation $578 29 payments
  6. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $575 27 payments
  7. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $546 30 payments
  8. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. $381 17 payments
  9. Pfizer Inc. $365 23 payments
  10. Shockwave Medical, Inc $215 2 payments
  11. Other $1,267 68 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $6,792 363 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. XARELTO $833 43 payments
  2. VERQUVO $718 33 payments
  3. ELIQUIS Cardiovascular $543 35 payments
  4. ENTRESTO $412 24 payments
  5. FARXIGA $406 25 payments
  6. JARDIANCE $317 18 payments
  7. VYNDAQEL $308 19 payments
  8. ELIQUIS Cardiovascular;Metabolic Disease $257 17 payments
  9. BRILINTA $222 15 payments
  10. AMVUTTRA $209 9 payments
  11. Other $2,944 149 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 · 65 drugs

Part D claims

7,897

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$2,851,624

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

32.4%

Median for Cardiology: 25.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Vyndamax Tafamidis Brand 50 $1,104,694
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 549 $519,590
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 466 $414,576
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 368 $296,500
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 313 $226,725
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 119 $107,977
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 39 $32,312
Repatha Syringe Evolocumab Brand 32 $32,012
Brilinta Ticagrelor Brand 37 $25,548
Verquvo Vericiguat Brand 15 $12,437

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 65 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 18,782 Part D prescribers listed as Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 64 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$359,255

Of which drugs: $894

Medicare patients

1,317

Average age 75

Services billed

4,855

714 women, 603 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 56%
Ischemic heart disease 52%
Heart failure 46%
Diabetes 45%
Chronic kidney disease 37%
Atrial fibrillation 31%
COPD 26%
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, regadenoson, 0.1 mg J2785 Office 39 129 $894

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 12 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
VERQUVO
  • Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $143
$143 15 —
AMVUTTRA
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. $117
$117 — —
VYEPTI
  • Lundbeck LLC $112
$112 — —
XARELTO
  • Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $81
$81 313 —
Wegovy
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $72
$72 — —

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

363 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 2025

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

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