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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $86,866 in general payments to James Freeman, MD across 136 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 Freeman, 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 Freeman, 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 Freeman, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · New Haven, CTNPI 1033244587

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $60,113 of the $86,866 with a category attached, or 69.2%. Boston Scientific accounts for 70.2% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $26,256, 3.8 times the $6,881 reported in 2019. Among clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in CT 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.

$86,866in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 136 payments — averaging $638.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$61K
Medtronic$19K
Abbott$6K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$768
Cortex, Inc.$172
Atricure, Inc.$63

$120,103in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 73 payments — averaging $1645.24 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.

Boston Scientific$66K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$44K
Atricure, Inc.$10K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$60,11369%
Speaking & faculty fees$8,1259%
Travel & lodging$13,85416%
Food & beverage$4,7755%

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
Boston Scientific	61	$61,000
Medtronic(2 entities)	44	$18,938
Abbott	25	$5,925
Biosense Webster, Inc.	3	$768
Cortex, Inc.	1	$172
Atricure, Inc.	2	$63

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.

WATCHMAN Access System$14,883
WATCHMAN FLX$14,866
Watchman$10,546
GENERAL - THERAPIES$4,004
CLINICAL TRIAL PRODUCT$2,975
Carto 3$2,800
TACTICATH ABLATION CATHETER, SENSOR ENABLED$2,705
AVEIR$1,979
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$1,316
ACCULINK$177
AMPLATZER AMULET$172
Architect$167
ENSITE PRECISION$100

How this compares

$86,866 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 47 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$100,916

Medicare patients

320

Services billed

621

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
EliquisApixaban	95	$70,285
Mexiletine Hcl	15	$716
Metoprolol Succinate	45	$637
Amiodarone Hcl	23	$598
SotalolSotalol Hcl	22	$374
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	21	$286
Digoxin	12	$55
Metoprolol Tartrate	11	$40

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in New Haven

Ralph DebiasiNew Haven$15K
Bilal AyubNew Haven$14K
Alan EnriquezNew Haven$3K
James HummelNew Haven$2K
Ilir MarajNew Haven$2K
Anis KadadoNew Haven$2K
Joseph Dell OrfanoHartford$160K
Paras BhattNorwich$139K
Steven ZweibelHartford$125K
Murali ChiravuriFairfield$101K

See the full list for Connecticut →

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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