James Carey, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Philadelphia, PANPI 1265460240
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $76,374 of the $97,560 with a category attached, or 78.3%. Vericel Corporation accounts for 84.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $23,519 and has fallen 96.5% since, to $814 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 95 payments — averaging $1026.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vericel Corporation$82K
- Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc.$8K
- Arthrex$5K
- Bioventus LLC$2K
- Paladin Technology Solutions$163
- Smith+Nephew$120
- plus $58 from 2 others
Across 15 payments — averaging $15,317 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Vericel Corporation$182K
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$47K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$76,37478%
- Speaking & faculty fees$17,29518%
- Travel & lodging$1,1061%
- Food & beverage$2,5943%
- Entertainment$1920%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vericel Corporation | 75 | $82,317 |
| Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc. | 4 | $7,846 |
| Arthrex | 8 | $4,956 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $2,100 |
| Paladin Technology Solutions | 1 | $163 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $120 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $33 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $25 |
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.
- MACI$74,168
How this compares
$97,560 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Philadelphia
- John FenlinPhiladelphia$5.9M
- Alexander VaccaroPhiladelphia$4.5M
- Joseph AbboudPhiladelphia$3.9M
- Samir MehtaPhiladelphia$3.6M
- Surena NamdariPhiladelphia$1.8M
- Neil ShethPhiladelphia$522K
- Amrit KhalsaPhiladelphia$475K
- Vahid EntezariPhiladelphia$393K
- Charles NelsonPhiladelphia$345K
- David GlaserPhiladelphia$176K
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.