Has James Bates, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $712 in general payments to James Bates, MD across 24 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean James Bates, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about James Bates, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

James Bates, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Meridian, IDNPI 1821092412

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 24 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 10 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $280, 3.2 times the $89 reported in 2019.

$712in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $29.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Amgen$163
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$157
AbbVie$144
Vertex$122
MDD US Operations, LLC$42
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.$25
plus $58 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$712100%

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
Amgen	3	$163
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$157
AbbVie(2 entities)	9	$144
Vertex	1	$122
MDD US Operations, LLC	2	$42
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	2	$25
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$17
Pfizer	1	$15
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$14
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	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.

How this compares

$712 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 38 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Idaho.

See all physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Idaho →

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$57,967

Medicare patients

Services billed

900

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
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	49	$24,394
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	115	$7,732
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	280	$7,260
Hydromorphone ErHydromorphone Hcl	18	$7,177
SymproicNaldemedine Tosylate	14	$6,129
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	88	$3,222
Lidocaine	27	$2,309
Pregabalin	62	$1,663
Hydromorphone Hcl	29	$1,662
Oxycodone Hcl	88	$1,456
Gabapentin	71	$1,419
Tizanidine Hcl	115	$1,149
Methocarbamol	27	$988
Tramadol Hcl	56	$493
Promethazine Hcl	14	$405

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Meridian

Donald AdamsMeridian$6K
Christian GussnerMeridian$4K
Kurt MildensteinMeridian$3K
Margaret BeckwithMeridian$2K
Bryce KirkmanMeridian$175
Neilly BuckalewCoeur D Alene$33K
Robert FriedmanBoise$18K
James WhitakerBoise$4K
Andrew CooperIdaho Falls$3K
Austin MyersPocatello$3K

See the full list for Idaho →

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.

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →