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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,263 in general payments to James Newton, MD across 266 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 Newton, 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 Newton, 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 Newton, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Columbia, MONPI 1902871361

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,957 of the $7,263 with a category attached, or 82.0%. Abbott accounts for 67.3% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,043 and has fallen 67.5% since, to $665 in 2025.

$7,263in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 266 payments — averaging $27.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$5K
Boston Scientific$2K
Medtronic$218
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$95
Vertos Medical, Inc.$81
Nalu Medical, Inc.$70
plus $194 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,30618%
Food & beverage$5,95782%

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
Abbott	212	$4,886
Boston Scientific	32	$1,719
Medtronic	1	$218
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	7	$95
Vertos Medical, Inc.	2	$81
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$70
Johnson & Johnson	3	$46
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$41
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$38
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$18
Convatec Inc.	1	$13
MML US, Inc.	1	$13
Pfizer	1	$13
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	1	$11

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

$7,263 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 27 interventional pain medicine providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$650,796

Medicare patients

994

Services billed

17,566

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
Pregabalin	850	$24,567
Gabapentin	803	$12,361
Buprenorphine	40	$9,330
Duloxetine Hcl	555	$8,635
Baclofen	528	$6,297
Methocarbamol	331	$4,054
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	162	$1,569
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	135	$1,461
Tramadol Hcl	295	$1,053
Tizanidine Hcl	116	$968
Chlorzoxazone	17	$661
Celecoxib	20	$497
Nortriptyline Hcl	44	$465
Meloxicam	125	$444
Diclofenac Sodium	28	$429

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other interventional pain medicine in Columbia

Bradford NobleColumbia$8K
Gary EatonColumbia$146
Rebecca SandersJoplin$209K
Ramis GheithBridgeton$73K
Helen BlakeChesterfield$48K
Andrew FrazierKansas City$32K
Christian OliverBridgeton$18K
David TonkinSpringfield$14K
Dwayne JonesKansas City$11K
Calvin CajigalDes Peres$8K

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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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