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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $89,659 in general payments to James Dowdell, MD across 119 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 Dowdell, 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 Dowdell, 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 Dowdell, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · New York, NYNPI 1518384957

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $54,717 of the $89,659 with a category attached, or 61.0%. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.0%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $50,659, more than ten times the $292 reported in 2020.

$89,659in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 119 payments — averaging $753.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$20K
Globus Medical$16K
VB Spine LLC$15K
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$14K
Cerapedics Inc.$11K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$9K
plus $5K from 11 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$54,71761%
Speaking & faculty fees$7,6008%
Travel & lodging$20,43223%
Food & beverage$6,9108%

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
Stryker	26	$19,699
Globus Medical(2 entities)	32	$16,419
VB Spine LLC	5	$15,095
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	12	$13,909
Cerapedics Inc.	4	$10,590
Alphatec Spine, Inc	21	$9,171
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$2,483
Bioventus LLC	2	$831
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$364
Si-bone, Inc.	4	$328
Augmedics Inc.	2	$289
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$140
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	1	$118
Suvon Surgical LLC	2	$90
Locate Bio Inc	1	$65
Life Spine, Inc.	1	$55
Theragen, Inc.	1	$14

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.

ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$12,692
YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$12,167
MONTEREY AL$11,500
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$10,590
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$8,601
Other - Miscellaneous$8,530
AERO-LL$2,246
Xvision$1,395
ACP$1,213
Pulse$776
XLIF$563
CREO MIS Stabilization System$540
RELINE$430
Modulus$332
Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$310
IdentiTi$248
MAZOR X SYSTEM$223
Excelsius3D Imaging System$175
ALIF$163
O-ARM-Spine$141

How this compares

$89,659 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$237,130

Medicare patients

341

Services billed

823

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
Gabapentin	80	$1,085
Tizanidine Hcl	11	$319
Duloxetine Hcl	14	$144
Methocarbamol	15	$43

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in New York

Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
Han KimNew York$3.9M
Todd AlbertNew York$2.7M
Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
Aaron BucklandNew York$1M
Sheeraz QureshiNew York$828K
Jeffrey GoldsteinNew York$765K
Fabien BitanNew York$624K
Oheneba Boachie-AdjeiNew York$313K
Harvinder SandhuNew York$266K

See the full list for New York →

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.

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