James Robinson, MD
Neurological Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1558367714
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $990,651 of the $993,403 with a category attached, or 99.7%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 42.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $462,818 and has fallen 95.2% since, to $22,207 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in GA 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 73 payments — averaging $13,608 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$421K
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$209K
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$195K
- Amendia, Inc.$166K
- Brainlab, Inc.$3K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$28
- plus $67 from 3 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $313,387 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.
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$2.2M
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$990,651100%
- Travel & lodging$2,5500%
- Food & beverage$2030%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 26 | $421,306 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 14 | $208,644 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 18 | $194,727 |
| Amendia, Inc. | 4 | $166,000 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 6 | $2,631 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $28 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Abbott | 1 | $18 |
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.
- DIAMOND$333,007
- CD HORIZON$227,277
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$105,537
- VENTURE$88,466
- Diamind$41,500
- ZAVATION$7,896
- Fenestrated Facet Screw System$4,266
How this compares
$993,403 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 201 neurological surgery providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Carbamazepine | 16 | $780 |
| Levetiracetam | 56 | $684 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $38 |
| Alprazolam | 14 | $7 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Atlanta
- Regis HaidAtlanta$25.5M
- Thomas MorrisonAtlanta$2.8M
- Christopher TomarasAtlanta$1.5M
- Daniel RefaiAtlanta$1.2M
- Gerald RodtsAtlanta$1.2M
- Michele JohnsonAtlanta$540K
- David McCrackenAtlanta$425K
- Robert GrossAtlanta$315K
- Kaveh KhajaviAtlanta$225K
- Joshua WewelAtlanta$114K
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.