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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $592 in general payments to James Morse, MD across 16 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 Morse, 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 Morse, 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 Morse, MD

Gastroenterology · Portland, MENPI 1679512719

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $442 of the $592 with a category attached, or 74.7%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. at 33.3% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for gastroenterology clinicians in ME, where the typical reported total is $670.

$592in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $37.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$197
Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation$70
Sanofi$69
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$64
Gilead$49
AbbVie$46
plus $97 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$15025%
Food & beverage$44275%

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
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$197
Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation	2	$70
Sanofi	2	$69
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$64
Gilead	2	$49
AbbVie	2	$46
Pfizer	1	$40
Covidien LP	1	$30
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$27

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.

GATTEX$150

How this compares

$592 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 68 gastroenterology providers in Maine.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$273,850

Medicare patients

283

Services billed

9,736

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
StelaraUstekinumab	15	$417,764
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab	26	$173,215
XifaxanRifaximin	12	$35,653
Mesalamine	44	$31,439
Balsalazide Disodium	14	$3,858
Ursodiol	11	$3,027
Budesonide EcBudesonide	11	$2,433
Omeprazole	70	$967
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	77	$878
Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine	14	$819
Famotidine	71	$791
Pantoprazole Sodium	32	$707
Sucralfate	14	$468
Dicyclomine Hcl	20	$378
LoperamideLoperamide Hcl	11	$316

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other gastroenterology in Portland

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Martin MoehlenPortland$340K
Fernando CalmetPortland$51K
Marina KimPortland$33K
Andrew HsuPortland$4K
Eric VecchioPortland$3K
Andreas StefanPortland$2K
Noemi BaffyPortland$1K
Daniil RolshudPortland$1K
Matthew GrunwaldPortland$805

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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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