James Jackson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Columbia, SCNPI 1912165234
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $7,251 of the $10,151 with a category attached, or 71.4%. Vilex LLC accounts for 74.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,846, more than ten times the $679 reported in 2021.
Across 23 payments — averaging $441.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vilex LLC$8K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Arthrex$662
- Zimmer Biomet$198
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$147
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$140
- plus $200 from 3 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $6079.43 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$13K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$11K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,25171%
- Travel & lodging$2,06820%
- Food & beverage$8338%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vilex LLC | 7 | $7,508 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $1,296 |
| Arthrex | 7 | $662 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $198 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $58 |
| Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Artemis$7,366
- MOTOBAND$1,250
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$198
- CLARIX$125
How this compares
$10,151 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 325 orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 34 | $95 |
| Prednisone | 13 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Columbia
- William SmithColumbia$7.7M
- Nicholas GrimaldiColumbia$203K
- Thomas GrossColumbia$34K
- Corey HamiltonColumbia$27K
- Logan HuffColumbia$26K
- Jeffrey HopkinsColumbia$24K
- Thomas JonesColumbia$17K
- Rachel GlennColumbia$15K
- Richard FrischMt Pleasant$1M
- Brent PonceCharleston$874K
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.