James Bridges, MD
Internal Medicine · Madison, MSNPI 1205065554
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 777 payments — averaging $29.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$9K
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$3K
- AstraZeneca$2K
- AbbVie$1K
- Lilly USA, LLC$1K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$976
- plus $6K from 42 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,90543%
- Food & beverage$13,36457%
- Education$70%
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.
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
$23,275 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 846 internal medicine providers in Mississippi.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 129 | $175,555 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 109 | $149,042 |
| EliquisApixaban | 119 | $122,762 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 54 | $55,017 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 55 | $53,289 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 32 | $49,142 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 43 | $47,502 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 42 | $38,250 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 56 | $37,692 |
| Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin | 25 | $31,940 |
| Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | 24 | $30,194 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 25 | $25,735 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 18 | $21,684 |
| Invokamet XrCanagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | 11 | $13,064 |
| Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide | 23 | $12,035 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $1,068 | $198,183141 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $917 | $175,555129 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $518 | $122,762119 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy Xr | $357 | $83,48279 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $1,576 | $38,25042 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $132 | $25,73525 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $216 | $21,68418 claims |
| GSKBreo Ellipta | $61 | $9,45524 claims |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCTrulance | $512 | $8,16412 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $1,359 | $5,71466 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 846 internal medicine providers in Mississippi.
Other internal medicine in Madison
- Richard RussellMadison$11K
- Michael MorganMadison$10K
- J HarrisonMadison$9K
- Eric EvansMadison$8K
- James HallBrookhaven$4.8M
- Bob HutchinsJackson$4.6M
- Sidney GortonBelzoni$571K
- David PendleyGulfport$336K
- Sarah KerutJackson$319K
- Gabriel HernandezJackson$196K
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.