James Malcolm, MD
Neurological Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1225562739
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 57 payments — averaging $159.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Spineart SA$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$937
- Globus Medical$775
- Spineart USA Inc$618
- plus $2K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,88421%
- Travel & lodging$5,02955%
- Food & beverage$2,17824%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 6 | $1,895 |
| Spineart SA | 2 | $1,884 |
| Medtronic | 14 | $1,433 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 7 | $937 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $775 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 4 | $618 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 4 | $441 |
| Stryker | 3 | $313 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 2 | $209 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $167 |
| Vertex | 1 | $122 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Microtransponder, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $21 |
| Abbott | 1 | $18 |
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.
- CURE ACP - ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE$1,884
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,790
- ACTIVL$808
- ELSA$755
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$745
- DIVERGENCE-L ANTERIOR/OBLIQUE LUMBAR FUSION SYSTEM$532
- OssDsign Catalyst$403
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$297
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$220
- JOURNAVX$122
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$118
- SKYLINE$103
How this compares
$9,091 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 201 neurological surgery providers in Georgia.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Atlanta
- Regis HaidAtlanta$25.5M
- Thomas MorrisonAtlanta$2.8M
- Arthur GrigorianAtlanta$2M
- Christopher TomarasAtlanta$1.5M
- Daniel RefaiAtlanta$1.2M
- Gerald RodtsAtlanta$1.2M
- James RobinsonAtlanta$993K
- Robert GrossAtlanta$641K
- Jonathan GrossbergAtlanta$570K
- Michele JohnsonAtlanta$540K
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.