James McAtee, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Manhattan, KSNPI 1922005354
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $3,052 of the $3,554 with a category attached, or 85.9%. Spinal Simplicity, LLC accounts for 85.9% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,093, more than ten times the $86 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in KS, where the typical reported total is $3,614.
Across 22 payments — averaging $161.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$3K
- Vericel Corporation$204
- Zimmer Biomet$141
- Acumed LLC$127
- Stryker$30
Across 7 payments — averaging $91,053 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$637K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,05286%
- Food & beverage$50214%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $3,052 |
| Vericel Corporation | 10 | $204 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $141 |
| Acumed LLC | 6 | $127 |
| Stryker | 2 | $30 |
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.
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$3,052
How this compares
$3,554 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 197 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 100 | $2,602 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 170 | $1,041 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 233 | $626 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 86 | $623 |
| Cefadroxil | 72 | $454 |
| Cephalexin | 144 | $163 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 52 | $147 |
| Meloxicam | 41 | $128 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 11 | $83 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Manhattan
- Nicholas DuethmanManhattan$57K
- Timothy CareyManhattan$38K
- David AndersonKansas City$490K
- Brandon CarlsonKansas City$299K
- Jacob DeisterTopeka$185K
- Harold EllsworthLeawood$154K
- Tyler BronWichita$107K
- William ReedLenexa$106K
- Alexander BaileyOverland Park$99K
- Brent WiseKansas City$97K
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.