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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,986,720 in general payments to James Malcolm, MD across 433 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 Malcolm, 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 Malcolm, 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 Malcolm, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Marietta, GANPI 1740283431

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,986,720in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 433 payments — averaging $4588.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

4web, Inc.$1.8M
Globus Medical$136K
Stryker$25K
Mirus, LLC$18K
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$10K
Spineart SA$9K
plus $21K from 37 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$109,59437%
Consulting fees$136,68246%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,5001%
Travel & lodging$28,19110%
Food & beverage$18,7106%
Education$650%
Entertainment$1700%

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
4web, Inc.	108	$1,767,194
Globus Medical(2 entities)	106	$136,136
Stryker	63	$24,550
Mirus, LLC	3	$18,000
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	6	$10,360
Spineart SA	7	$9,277
Alphatec Spine, Inc	33	$7,311
Cerapedics Inc.	17	$5,570
Carlsmed, Inc.	4	$2,104
Ossdsign USA Incorporated	5	$524
Medacta USA, Inc.	7	$483
Neo Spine USA, Inc.	2	$390
Baxter Healthcare	5	$379
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$307
Spineart USA Inc	1	$303
Centinel Spine, LLC	5	$288
Zimmer Biomet	3	$277
Nevro Corp.	2	$251
Radius Health, Inc.	11	$234
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	1	$228
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$228
Spine Wave, Inc.	2	$222
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	3	$213
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	4	$188
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.	2	$170
Si-bone, Inc.	7	$167
MML US, Inc.	1	$161
Xtant Medical Inc	1	$139
Nanovis LLC	1	$138
Abbott	1	$137
Johnson & Johnson	3	$126
Smith+Nephew	2	$121
Medtronic	2	$118
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC	1	$101
Spineology Inc.	2	$79
Axogen	1	$76
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc	1	$58
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$24
Medicrea USA, Corp.	1	$21
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	1	$18
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	1	$18
Boston Scientific	1	$15
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$14

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.

SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$73,706
SUSTAIN O$59,035
REVERE$20,254
TRITANIUM$19,483
SERRATO$19,229
Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$19,215
EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$18,000
CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$18,000
XIA$12,620
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$11,842
SUSTAIN$11,168
coflex$9,956
REVERE 6.35 Deformity$8,647
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$7,421
Other - Miscellaneous$4,800
CURE ACP - ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE$4,666
PERLA C$4,611
XLIF$4,053
aprevo$2,074
MULTIPLE$711

How this compares

$1,986,720 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 57 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$119,901

Medicare patients

Services billed

610

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
Celecoxib	139	$2,403
Gabapentin	88	$767
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	13	$420
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	34	$400
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	19	$364
Diclofenac Sodium	13	$184
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	14	$154
Tramadol Hcl	23	$110
Promethazine Hcl	25	$58
Meloxicam	16	$58

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Marietta

John HellerAtlanta$4.2M
Justin BundyAugusta$1.5M
Scott BodenAtlanta$1.5M
John RheeAtlanta$1.1M
Brad PrybisStockbridge$792K
Tapan DaftariAustell$760K
Craig ChebuharAtlanta$696K
Paul JeffordsAtlanta$651K
Raphael RoybalSavannah$400K
Hewatt SimsDouglas$376K

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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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