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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,393,230 in general payments to James Pritchett, MD across 214 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 Pritchett, 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 Pritchett, 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 Pritchett, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Seattle, WANPI 1265421382

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $6,362,476 of the $6,393,230 with a category attached, or 99.5%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 99.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,519,975 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $312 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in WA 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.

$6,393,230in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 214 payments — averaging $29,875 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$6.4M
Smith+Nephew$16K
Microport Orthopedics Inc$11K
Medacta USA, Inc.$2K
DJO, LLC$784
Stryker$524
plus $550 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$6,362,476100%
Consulting fees$16,0310%
Speaking & faculty fees$9,7840%
Travel & lodging$2,9480%
Food & beverage$1,9910%

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	30	$6,362,796
Smith+Nephew	10	$16,071
Microport Orthopedics Inc	15	$10,689
Medacta USA, Inc.	3	$1,815
DJO, LLC	144	$784
Stryker	5	$524
Exactech, Inc.	1	$191
Orthalign Inc	2	$150
Biopro, Inc.	1	$134
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$47
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$28

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

$6,393,230 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 495 orthopaedic surgery providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$149,997

Medicare patients

227

Services billed

673

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
Doxycycline Hyclate	14	$1,097
Oxycodone Hcl	21	$76

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Seattle

James CrutcherSeattle$3.5M
Keith MayoSeattle$3.1M
Matthew SaltzmanSeattle$1.8M
Burt YaszaySeattle$1.3M
Sean ToomeySeattle$1.2M
Robert HartSeattle$942K
Jeffrey RohSeattle$604K
Michael BrageSeattle$496K
Daniel SchwartzSeattle$424K
Grant GarciaSeattle$367K

See the full list for Washington →

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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