James Mullen, MD
Hand Surgery · Wexford, PANPI 1649614041
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $28,825 of the $42,660 with a category attached, or 67.6%. Medartis Inc. accounts for 63.8% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $13,712 and has fallen 81.6% since, to $2,528 in 2025.
Across 127 payments — averaging $335.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medartis Inc.$27K
- Trice Medical, Inc.$8K
- Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$3K
- Arthrex$2K
- Medtronic$366
- Stryker$252
- plus $990 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$28,82568%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,1805%
- Travel & lodging$3,1857%
- Food & beverage$6,06914%
- Education$2,4006%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medartis Inc. | 41 | $27,196 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 10 | $8,175 |
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 6 | $3,425 |
| Arthrex | 32 | $2,255 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $366 |
| Stryker | 4 | $252 |
| Axogen | 6 | $208 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $208 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 1 | $112 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $100 |
| Bioventus LLC | 5 | $96 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $93 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $42 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $24 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Amgen | 1 | $12 |
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.
- APTUS$26,568
- O-ARM-Spine$269
- REUNION$144
- GRAFIX PL$143
- EXPAREL$100
How this compares
$42,660 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 110 hand surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 21 | $149 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Wexford
- Glenn ButerbaughWexford$10K
- Thomas GrahamAllentown$1.4M
- Randall CulpPlains$358K
- Asif IlyasBryn Mawr$295K
- Arthur OstermanKing Of Prussia$198K
- Meredith OstermanKing Of Prussia$196K
- Adam StrohlPhiladelphia$175K
- Mark BaratzPittsburgh$112K
- Richard TostiBryn Mawr$109K
- Sidney JacobyKing Of Prussia$105K
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.