Medical Doctor Program year 2024 Reported 2019–2024 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Whitney James

Neurological Surgery Prescott, AZ Medical Doctor

NPI 1144582248 CMS profile 142505

1231 Willow Creek Rd Ste B, Prescott, AZ 86301

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General payments

$55,031

340 records reported · program years 2019–2024

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2024

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$3,889 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2023–2024

Through program year 2024, Whitney James of Prescott, AZ is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $55,031 across 340 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $3,889 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 87th percentile of Neurological Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2024 General $274 14
2023 General $22,936 91
2022 General $26,009 64
2021 General $2,820 82
2020 General $1,354 70
2019 General $1,638 19

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Whitney James were reported at $0. 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 Whitney James Neurological Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $1,638 $582 $138–$3,006 $163
2020 $1,354 $294 $76–$2,174 $114
2021 $2,820 $387 $105–$2,432 $132
2022 $26,009 $542 $139–$2,989 $149
2023 $22,936 $534 $145–$2,697 $160
2024 $274 $574 $155–$3,046 $164
2025 $0 $596 $159–$3,102 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Boston Scientific Corporation $31,677 76 payments
  2. Abbott Laboratories $17,001 175 payments
  3. Flowonix Medical Incorporated $1,490 2 payments
  4. Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. $1,109 26 payments
  5. SI-BONE, Inc. $871 11 payments
  6. Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC $762 9 payments
  7. RTI Surgical, Inc. $330 4 payments
  8. Nevro Corp. $315 5 payments
  9. Providence Medical Technology, Inc. $269 5 payments
  10. Painteq LLC $233 3 payments
  11. Other $975 24 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $23,250 12 payments
  2. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $11,145 6 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $9,152 289 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $6,987 26 payments
  5. Consulting Fee $3,375 5 payments
  6. Entertainment $1,123 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. PROCLAIM Neuromodulation $10,014 13 payments
  2. General - Therapies $8,665 9 payments
  3. PROCLAIM Neuromodulation $3,382 12 payments
  4. WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16 $2,021 3 payments
  5. Prometra II $1,490 2 payments
  6. Superion Indirect Decompression System $1,116 9 payments
  7. PRODIGY $1,114 4 payments
  8. Evoke SCS $925 16 payments
  9. AXIUM $758 5 payments
  10. WAVEWRITER ALPHA $750 1 payment
  11. Other $5,941 224 payments

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

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 29 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$98,114

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

136

Average age 76

Services billed

909

89 women, 47 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
Arthritis 75%
High blood pressure 69%
Osteoporosis 41%
Ischemic heart disease 29%
Chronic kidney disease 29%
Depression 28%
Diabetes 27%
Atrial fibrillation 21%

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

340 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 2024

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

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