James Bardoner, MD
Surgery · Augusta, GANPI 1558652032
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,024 of the $2,440 with a category attached, or 83.0%. It is spread thinly across 33 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $949 and has fallen 68.8% since, to $296 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $1,913.
Across 91 payments — averaging $26.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$533
- Endogastric Solutions, Inc$353
- Smith+Nephew$224
- TELA Bio, Inc.$190
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$174
- Medtronic$152
- plus $813 from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$37515%
- Food & beverage$2,02483%
- Education$412%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $533 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 7 | $353 |
| Smith+Nephew | 14 | $224 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 10 | $190 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 8 | $174 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $152 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $100 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $82 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 3 | $60 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $57 |
| Merck | 2 | $51 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $43 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $31 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $25 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Novartis | 1 | $21 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Moximed, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $14 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $13 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Prescient Surgical | 1 | $13 |
| My01 Inc. | 1 | $12 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$369
- ESOPHYX$137
How this compares
$2,440 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 855 surgery providers in Georgia.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 11 | $393 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 116 | $294 |
| Ibuprofen | 103 | $207 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 20 | $155 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 17 | $109 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $97 |
| EnuloseLactulose | 14 | $95 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 15 | $82 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 37 | $74 |
| Methocarbamol | 11 | $51 |
| Metronidazole | 24 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Augusta
- Zachary KlaassenAugusta$763K
- Erika MabesAugusta$87K
- Chris CarlsonAugusta$73K
- Francisco JacomeAugusta$49K
- Chad CopperGainesville$999K
- Stephen OdomAustell$599K
- Fritz Jean-PierreMarietta$464K
- Kendra GrubbAtlanta$374K
- Harry LightfootSmyrna$241K
- Oliver WhippleSavannah$222K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.