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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $52,599 in general payments to James Hawkins, MD across 104 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 Hawkins, 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 Hawkins, 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 Hawkins, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Avondale, AZNPI 1134100407

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $45,000 of the $52,599 with a category attached, or 85.6%. Stryker accounts for 84.9% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $19,261 and has fallen 59.9% since, to $7,716 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $49,864.

$52,599in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 104 payments — averaging $505.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$45K
VB Spine LLC$5K
Abbott$757
Alphatec Spine, Inc$593
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$311
Medtronic$162
plus $743 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$45,00086%
Travel & lodging$3,7617%
Food & beverage$3,8377%

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	69	$44,656
VB Spine LLC	5	$5,375
Abbott	6	$757
Alphatec Spine, Inc	7	$593
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	5	$311
Medtronic	1	$162
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$155
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$127
Lenoss Medical Inc	2	$119
Zimmer Biomet	1	$113
Globus Medical	3	$84
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$77
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$39
Titan Spine, LLC	1	$30

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.

NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$12,140
ARIA$8,915
RAVINE$8,000
RAVINE LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$5,284
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$3,941
CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$3,900
CAYMAN PLATE SYSTEM$2,600
YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$1,950
LATERAL ACCESS SPINAL SYSTEM$1,066
PROCLAIM$739
ALEUTIAN INTERBODY SYSTEMS$650
ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$650
Other - Miscellaneous$370
N/A$253
nanoLOCK-C$162
NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$154
TRITANIUM$149
SPINEMAP$146
COFLEX INTERLAMINAR TECHNOLOGY, 10MM$127
Persona$113

How this compares

$52,599 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$205,742

Medicare patients

291

Services billed

1,109

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	107	$767
Diclofenac Sodium	27	$640
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	58	$553
Meloxicam	170	$499
Methylprednisolone	60	$473
Gabapentin	56	$416
Tramadol Hcl	73	$259
Celecoxib	14	$134
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	24	$131
Naproxen	16	$106
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	15	$95
Oxycodone Hcl	11	$57
Diazepam	14	$11

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Avondale

Justin FieldPhoenix$2.3M
John HallFlagstaff$783K
Nima SalariPhoenix$741K
Harvinder BediPhoenix$740K
Michael ChangMesa$692K
Todd DoerrScottsdale$614K
Mark WangPhoenix$573K
Dennis CrandallMesa$496K
Terrence CrowderGilbert$421K
Joshua AbramsPhoenix$311K

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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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