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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,877 in general payments to James Holtzclaw, MD across 45 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 Holtzclaw, 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 Holtzclaw, 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 Holtzclaw, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Savannah, GANPI 1275584930

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,877in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 45 payments — averaging $130.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$5K
Zimmer Biomet$431
Johnson & Johnson$200
Boston Scientific$117
Amgen$105
Medacta USA, Inc.$26

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,89766%
Food & beverage$1,93433%
Education$461%

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
Smith+Nephew	26	$4,998
Zimmer Biomet	7	$431
Johnson & Johnson	3	$200
Boston Scientific	2	$117
Amgen(2 entities)	5	$105
Medacta USA, Inc.	2	$26

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

$5,877 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$244,087

Medicare patients

424

Services billed

4,337

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
Celecoxib	196	$3,857
Diclofenac Sodium	39	$3,250
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	132	$1,910
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	74	$898
Cephalexin	49	$301
Tranexamic Acid	18	$228
Tramadol Hcl	63	$175
Methylprednisolone	20	$118
Meloxicam	42	$109
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	11	$87
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	18	$84
Clindamycin Hcl	14	$59
Gabapentin	15	$52

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Savannah

Jonathan ChristySavannah$216K
Charles HopeSavannah$121K
Paul BalthropSavannah$83K
Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.8M
Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.7M
John DorchakColumbus$3.8M
Daniel SilcoxAtlanta$3.4M
Dennis DevitoAtlanta$1.5M
George GuildCumming$1.4M

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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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