James Hughey, DO
Sports Medicine · Huntsville, ALNPI 1033438825
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (40.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Prime Surgical, LLC at 46.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,307 and has fallen 97.9% since, to $48 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for sports medicine clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $4,051.
Across 26 payments — averaging $113.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Prime Surgical, LLC$1K
- Arthrex$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$86
- Johnson & Johnson$69
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$33
- Biocomposites Inc$23
- plus $29 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$88330%
- Food & beverage$87630%
- Education$1,20041%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 12 | $1,361 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $1,359 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $86 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $69 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| Linkbio Corp | 1 | $12 |
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
$2,959 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 108 sports medicine providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 47 | $1,107 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 130 | $914 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 168 | $851 |
| Methylprednisolone | 74 | $630 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 108 | $441 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 77 | $377 |
| Meloxicam | 100 | $280 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 22 | $276 |
| Ibuprofen | 25 | $267 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 11 | $229 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 52 | $148 |
| Mupirocin | 16 | $139 |
| Amoxicillin | 20 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Huntsville
- James McMurtrieHuntsville$54K
- Michael CantrellHuntsville$9K
- Brian CostHuntsville$4K
- Edward CainBirmingham$12.7M
- Daniel MatthewsDaphne$190K
- Mark RogersBirmingham$94K
- Amit MomayaBirmingham$77K
- Matthew SmithGuntersville$73K
- Christoper GarrettBirmingham$58K
- Jonathan IsbellHoover$55K
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.