James Hwang
Trauma Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1376703959
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $8,150 of the $12,775 with a category attached, or 63.8%. Vericel Corporation accounts for 66.2% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,895, more than ten times the $767 reported in 2019.
Across 53 payments — averaging $241.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vericel Corporation$8K
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$1K
- Smith+Nephew$582
- Baxter Healthcare$425
- Triad Life Sciences Inc.$372
- plus $641 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,15064%
- Food & beverage$4,51835%
- Gifts$1071%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vericel Corporation | 6 | $8,456 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 13 | $1,263 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 9 | $1,035 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $582 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $425 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 4 | $372 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $119 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $114 |
| Polymedics Innovations Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| OVIK Health, LLC | 1 | $95 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $62 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $19 |
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.
- NexoBrid$8,375
- INTEGRA$2,056
- InnovaMatrix AC$1,174
- RECELL$776
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$685
- PRIMATRIX$685
- ARTISS$384
- Oasis$356
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$233
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$233
- AMNIOEXCEL$233
- IDRT$233
- FLOWABLE$233
- ACTICOAT 4" X 4"$134
- COLLAGENASE SANTYL$134
- Versajet$134
- PICO 14$128
- RENASYS TOUCH$128
- RENASYS GO v2 HOME$128
- Santyl$122
How this compares
$12,775 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 26 trauma surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 55 | $257 |
| Gabapentin | 33 | $224 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 17 | $98 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other trauma surgery in Birmingham
- John HolcombBirmingham$45K
- Jan JansenBirmingham$18K
- William HewgleyBirmingham$10K
- Jonathan BlackBirmingham$4K
- Ryan WanBirmingham$4K
- Rondi GelbardBirmingham$2K
- Samantha BakerBirmingham$2K
- Shannon CarrollBirmingham$94
- Mohammad HashmiBirmingham$20
- John VermillionMontgomery$87K
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.