Has James Groce received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,212 in general payments to James Groce across 186 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 Groce 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 Groce 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 Groce

Psychiatry · Smithfield, NCNPI 1811090566

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (54.0%), food and beverage and gifts — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC accounts for 63.5% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $7,853 and has fallen 86.2% since, to $1,081 in 2025. Among psychiatry clinicians in NC 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.

$12,212in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 186 payments — averaging $65.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$8K
USWM, LLC$1K
Johnson & Johnson$657
Alkermes, Inc.$586
AbbVie$494
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$432
plus $1K from 10 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$6,60054%
Travel & lodging$6615%
Food & beverage$3,90932%
Education$290%
Gifts$1,0138%

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
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	14	$7,753
USWM, LLC	6	$1,078
Johnson & Johnson	30	$657
Alkermes, Inc.	31	$586
AbbVie	28	$494
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	26	$432
Indivior Inc.	13	$348
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	7	$198
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	8	$171
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$134
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	6	$120
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	4	$90
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$63
Lundbeck LLC	2	$53
Luye Pharma (USA) Ltd.	1	$19
Gilead	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.

How this compares

$12,212 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,108 psychiatry providers in North Carolina.

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Keshavpal ReddyGreensboro$480K
Robert MilletRaleigh$476K
Steven SzaboDurham$360K
David JoyeAlbemarle$280K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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