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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,108 in general payments to James Morrissey, MD across 213 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 Morrissey, 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 Morrissey, 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 Morrissey, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Stockton, CANPI 1033223060

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,108in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 213 payments — averaging $47.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$6K
Abbott$2K
Shockwave Medical, Inc$537
Silk Road Medical, Inc.$473
Elutia, Inc.$441
Edwards Lifesciences$386
plus $839 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Grants$891%
Travel & lodging$2,43924%
Food & beverage$7,58075%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	127	$5,863
Abbott	22	$1,567
Shockwave Medical, Inc	18	$537
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	9	$473
Elutia, Inc.	15	$441
Edwards Lifesciences	5	$386
Abiomed	4	$275
Boston Scientific	2	$131
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$124
Johnson & Johnson	1	$82
Atricure, Inc.	2	$60
Davol Inc.	1	$45
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$43
Terumo Medical Corporation	2	$35
Philips North America LLC	1	$28
LSI Solutions Inc	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

$10,108 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$347,165

Medicare patients

310

Services billed

658

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
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	17	$108

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Stockton

Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$1.4M
Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$963K
Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$901K
Michael FischbeinPalo Alto$899K
Jay LeeLos Angeles$856K
William HiesingerPalo Alto$815K

See the full list for California →

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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