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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $32,087 in general payments to James Mitchell, MD across 100 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 Mitchell, 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 Mitchell, 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 Mitchell, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Oklahoma City, OKNPI 1902026909

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (54.3%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC at 26.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,134, 5.5 times the $1,846 reported in 2019.

$32,087in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 100 payments — averaging $320.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC$8K
Linkbio Corp$8K
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.$4K
Stryker$3K
Medacta USA, Inc.$3K
Zimmer Biomet$1K
plus $4K from 10 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$17,42554%
Travel & lodging$8,49726%
Food & beverage$6,16419%

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
Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC	10	$8,351
Linkbio Corp	5	$8,331
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.	6	$4,145
Stryker	27	$3,354
Medacta USA, Inc.	15	$2,710
Zimmer Biomet	11	$1,465
Maxx Orthopedics, Inc.	5	$1,131
Smith+Nephew	7	$923
Microport Orthopedics Inc	3	$778
Encore Medical, LP	2	$564
Omnilife Science, Inc	3	$159
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$62
Innovation Technologies Inc	2	$50
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$27
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$22
Vertex	1	$16

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

$32,087 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Oklahoma.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$290,157

Medicare patients

558

Services billed

1,867

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	297	$4,571
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	36	$770
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	16	$391
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	17	$171
Tramadol Hcl	29	$148
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	19	$134
Meloxicam	38	$89
Gabapentin	11	$70
Cephalexin	31	$56
Amoxicillin	11	$12
Tamsulosin Hcl	11	$11

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Oklahoma City

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Bradley ReddickOklahoma City$573K
Jason EmersonOklahoma City$189K
Ronald DumiganOklahoma City$169K
Paul MaitinoOklahoma City$110K
Thomas TkachOklahoma City$83K
Brian LevingsOklahoma City$80K
Christopher WhiteOklahoma City$73K
Raymond SteinmetzOklahoma City$64K
Michael JohnsonOklahoma City$63K

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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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