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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,242 in general payments to James McIntosh, MD across 10 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 McIntosh, 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 McIntosh, 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 McIntosh, MD

Hand Surgery · West Columbia, SCNPI 1902817836

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

4 manufacturers reported payments, led by Peerless Surgical Inc. at 49.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $631 and has fallen 83.9% since, to $102 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $2,706.

$1,242in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $124.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Peerless Surgical Inc.$614
Stryker$549
Abbott$59
Trimed, Inc.$20

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$65853%
Education$58447%

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
Peerless Surgical Inc.	2	$614
Stryker	5	$549
Abbott	2	$59
Trimed, Inc.	1	$20

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.

How this compares

$1,242 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 47 hand surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$325,121

Medicare patients

729

Services billed

10,640

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
Naloxone Hcl	78	$4,749
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	168	$1,344
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	106	$1,105
Meloxicam	278	$668
Prednisone	244	$665
Tramadol Hcl	86	$406
Ibuprofen	14	$75
Cephalexin	13	$58

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hand surgery in West Columbia

Michelle O'BrienWest Columbia$8K
Andrea GaleWest Columbia$2K
Dane DaleyCharleston$137K
James PriceMt Pleasant$24K
Jason DickherberSpartanburg$18K
Shea RayGreenville$13K
Sonya ClarkSpartanburg$12K
Seth BowmanColumbia$12K
Erica UmpierrezConway$11K
Kyle KokkoSummerville$10K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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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