James O Leary, MD
Sports Medicine · Columbia, SCNPI 1346241502
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $27,000 of the $38,953 with a category attached, or 69.3%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 94.9% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $30,717 and has fallen 98.0% since, to $614 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 156 payments — averaging $249.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$37K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$611
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$474
- Smith+Nephew$161
- Amgen$152
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$135
- plus $443 from 11 others
Across 15 payments — averaging $1203.13 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Zimmer Biomet$18K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$27,00069%
- Travel & lodging$5,01313%
- Food & beverage$6,94018%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 95 | $36,976 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 6 | $611 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 7 | $474 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $161 |
| Amgen | 20 | $152 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $135 |
| Stryker | 2 | $125 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $84 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $79 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $27 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $22 |
| Myoscience Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Convatec Inc. | 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.
- Persona$13,177
- Knees Product Portfolio$5,750
- Oxford$4,509
- ROSA-Knee$897
- mymobility Platform$422
- ROSA$415
- Persona Revision$394
- GMK SPHERE$294
- PPK$279
- Quatro Link$234
- MECTA$137
- AccuFill$125
- Hips-None$116
- Knees-None$116
- GMK Sphere Revision System$102
How this compares
$38,953 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 158 sports medicine providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 79 | $21,315 |
| Meloxicam | 311 | $2,076 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 32 | $2,070 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 206 | $1,601 |
| Mupirocin | 114 | $704 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 100 | $669 |
| Cefadroxil | 117 | $533 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 130 | $518 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 196 | $515 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 37 | $457 |
| Methylprednisolone | 39 | $266 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 68 | $223 |
| Naproxen | 18 | $198 |
| Ibuprofen | 25 | $88 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 18 | $87 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Columbia
- Silas HolmesColumbia$2.2M
- Jeffrey GuyColumbia$120K
- Christopher MazoueColumbia$20K
- Gregory PennyColumbia$17K
- Robert BrowningColumbia$12K
- Andrew McGownColumbia$8K
- Robert DasilvaColumbia$7K
- Candler MathewsColumbia$4K
- Stephan PillGreenville$688K
- Steven MartinSeneca$356K
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.