James Lock, MD
Surgery · Opelika, ALNPI 1194757179
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 96 payments — averaging $54.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$2K
- Endologix LLC$635
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$539
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$385
- Medtronic$339
- Penumbra, Inc.$274
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$55311%
- Food & beverage$4,70989%
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. | 16 | $1,586 |
| Endologix LLC | 6 | $635 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 12 | $539 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 4 | $385 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $339 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $274 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 3 | $250 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 4 | $199 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 2 | $114 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $114 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $93 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 2 | $92 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $74 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $68 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $47 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $26 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Cardinal Health 414 LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $16 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Focal Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $12 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $7 |
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $6 |
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.
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,170
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$1,030
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$651
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$651
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$519
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$464
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$379
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$373
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$199
- ENDOCROSS Device$128
- Torus Stent Graft System$128
- Indigo System$115
- IN.PACT Admiral$111
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$110
- IN.PACT AV$109
- Penumbra System$104
- HawkOne$103
- BioMimics 3D Vascular Stent System$101
- Magseed$100
- Magtrace$100
How this compares
$5,262 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 382 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 396 | $1,806 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 105 | $837 |
| Cilostazol | 31 | $559 |
| Gabapentin | 67 | $409 |
| Levofloxacin | 21 | $380 |
| Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine | 19 | $336 |
| Mupirocin | 30 | $246 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 40 | $192 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 20 | $157 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 17 | $128 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 40 | $111 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 15 | $104 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 16 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Opelika
- Allen LazenbyOpelika$17K
- Harold FosterOpelika$11K
- Daniel CoxBirmingham$1.2M
- John PorterfieldBessemer$972K
- Parker HuBirmingham$734K
- Barton WoodAlabaster$702K
- Forrest RingoldMobile$678K
- Adam BeckBirmingham$634K
- Jason BeaverDothan$374K
- Dennis FernandezHuntsville$266K
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.