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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $569 in general payments to James Kirby, MD across 20 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 Kirby, 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 Kirby, 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 Kirby, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Bryan, TXNPI 1861458804

Payments from drug & device makers

$569in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $28.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Silk Road Medical, Inc.$247
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$123
Medtronic$96
Boston Scientific$42
Pfizer$29
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$17
plus $16 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$569100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	4	$247
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	4	$123
Medtronic(2 entities)	6	$96
Boston Scientific	2	$42
Pfizer	2	$29
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	1	$17
AstraZeneca	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.

How this compares

$569 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$35,196

Medicare patients

Services billed

101

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
Metoprolol Succinate	34	$474
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	38	$392
Atorvastatin Calcium	34	$386
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	16	$197
Carvedilol	12	$64
Metoprolol Tartrate	14	$47
Furosemide	12	$28
Lisinopril	11	$17

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Bryan

Robert SmithPlano$2.9M
Michael ReardonHouston$2.7M
William RyanPlano$2.1M
Faraz KerendiAustin$1.6M
Robert HebelerDallas$1.2M
William BrinkmanPlano$1.2M
Robert RipleyHouston$817K
Michael MackPlano$796K
Katherine HarringtonPlano$723K
Danny RamzyHouston$620K

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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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