James Price, MD
Hand Surgery · Mt Pleasant, SCNPI 1518992817
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $15,251 of the $24,250 with a category attached, or 62.9%. Exactech, Inc. accounts for 84.3% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $16,481 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $19 in 2025. Among hand surgery clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 63 payments — averaging $384.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Exactech, Inc.$20K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$2K
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$361
- Smith+Nephew$306
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$232
- Acumed LLC$151
- plus $445 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$15,25163%
- Travel & lodging$2,2849%
- Food & beverage$4,50319%
- Education$2,2129%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Exactech, Inc. | 32 | $20,450 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 6 | $2,305 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $361 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $306 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $232 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $151 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $133 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $105 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 1 | $64 |
| Amgen | 3 | $50 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $31 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- EQUINOXE$19,797
- EXACTECHGPS$368
- XIAFLEX$246
- NEURAGEN$232
- TENOGLIDE$232
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$148
- Regeneten$139
- Geminus$133
- Align$133
- IJS$133
- Implate$133
- OsteoMed$113
- INnate Implant$113
- NanoPhix Implant$113
- COMPREHENSIVE$105
How this compares
$24,250 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 47 hand surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 46 | $169 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 36 | $124 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 17 | $46 |
| Meloxicam | 23 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Mt Pleasant
- Dane DaleyCharleston$137K
- Jason DickherberSpartanburg$18K
- Shea RayGreenville$13K
- Sonya ClarkSpartanburg$12K
- Seth BowmanColumbia$12K
- Erica UmpierrezConway$11K
- Kyle KokkoSummerville$10K
- Benjamin SutkerFort Mill$9K
- Sarah YannascoliCharleston$8K
- Fiesky NunezGreenville$8K
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.