James Heltsley, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Bowling Green, KYNPI 1881998490
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 65 payments — averaging $160.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$4K
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$4K
- Stryker$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$590
- Smith+Nephew$329
- Zimmer Biomet$206
- plus $605 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4775%
- Food & beverage$4,10939%
- Education$5,87556%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 7 | $3,818 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 17 | $3,692 |
| Stryker | 11 | $1,222 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $590 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $329 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $206 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $199 |
| Music City Medical Technologies, LLC | 1 | $146 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $95 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $54 |
| Vertex | 2 | $34 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Amgen | 2 | $30 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- TRIATHLON$465
- MAKOPLASTY$240
- CellerateRx$199
- AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$142
- REUNION$139
- T2$130
- Persona$117
- OSS Orthopedic Salvage System$117
- REGENETEN Shoulder$115
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$112
- TFN-Advance$110
- Regeneten$102
How this compares
$10,462 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 322 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kentucky.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 394 | $4,294 |
| Celecoxib | 79 | $2,805 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 229 | $2,417 |
| Methylprednisolone | 129 | $698 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 66 | $433 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 23 | $226 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 41 | $142 |
| Gabapentin | 37 | $99 |
| Ibuprofen | 14 | $92 |
| Mupirocin | 14 | $79 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 20 | $77 |
| Cephalexin | 21 | $61 |
| Methocarbamol | 12 | $48 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 23 | $48 |
| Meloxicam | 31 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Bowling Green
- Phillip SingerBowling Green$816K
- David RichardsBowling Green$44K
- Caleb DavisBowling Green$43K
- Arthur MalkaniLouisville$9.9M
- Jonathan YerasimidesLouisville$4.3M
- John LewisLouisville$1.6M
- Samer HasanCrestview Hills$1.3M
- Akbar NawabLouisville$1M
- Brent MorrisLexington$901K
- Clint HillPaducah$698K
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.