James McDermott, MD
Sports Medicine · Spartanburg, SCNPI 1194079467
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (43.3%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 37.2% of the total.
Across 129 payments — averaging $129.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$6K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$5K
- Stryker$2K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$447
- Zimmer Biomet$287
- plus $859 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,50015%
- Travel & lodging$7,23643%
- Food & beverage$4,89829%
- Education$2,08312%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 34 | $6,213 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 24 | $5,274 |
| Stryker | 22 | $1,992 |
| Smith+Nephew | 14 | $1,645 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $447 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $287 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 8 | $269 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 5 | $177 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $147 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $90 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $40 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $32 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $29 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
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.
- AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$772
- Meniscal Root Repair System$542
- Healicoil$542
- MULTIFIX S$542
- Endobutton$450
- Regeneten$420
- Integrity implant$274
- AIR$165
- ICONIX$158
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$152
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$152
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$152
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$152
- Xperience$147
- BlastX$147
- MAKO$141
- INSPACE$139
- mymobility Platform$139
- Integrity$136
- CROSSFIRE$133
How this compares
$16,717 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 158 sports medicine providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naproxen | 64 | $459 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $212 |
| Ibuprofen | 29 | $173 |
| Mupirocin | 25 | $172 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 19 | $101 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 28 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Spartanburg
- Douglas WylandSpartanburg$124K
- Mikhail AlexeevSpartanburg$31K
- Ian GaoSpartanburg$19K
- Christopher ElliottSpartanburg$6K
- Silas HolmesColumbia$2.2M
- Stephan PillGreenville$688K
- Steven MartinSeneca$356K
- Stefan TolanGreenville$280K
- Michael KissenberthGreenville$172K
- Guillaume DumontWest Columbia$146K
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.