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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $15,290 in general payments to James Rooks, MD across 210 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 Rooks, 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 Rooks, 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 Rooks, MD

Surgery · Jackson, MSNPI 1962451898

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.9%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 44 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 46.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,137 and has fallen 89.3% since, to $763 in 2025.

$15,290in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 210 payments — averaging $72.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$7K
Artegraft Inc.$3K
Davol Inc.$1K
Organogenesis Inc.$736
Merz North America, Inc.$594
Smith+Nephew$559
plus $2K from 38 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,89319%
Food & beverage$7,62850%
Education$4,76831%

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
Intuitive Surgical	22	$7,117
Artegraft Inc.	2	$2,855
Davol Inc.	23	$1,262
Organogenesis Inc.	18	$736
Merz North America, Inc.	2	$594
Smith+Nephew	55	$559
AbbVie(2 entities)	13	$235
Medtronic	3	$207
Sanara Medtech Inc.	5	$156
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	2	$139
Acera Surgical, Inc.	2	$136
Kerecis Limited	4	$127
Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC	2	$119
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	6	$101
TELA Bio, Inc.	5	$91
Hydrofera LLC	3	$90
Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$65
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	4	$55
Vantive US Healthcare LLC	1	$51
Medela LLC	3	$49
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	2	$42
Inari Medical, Inc.	2	$40
Polynovo North America LLC	2	$39
Covidien LP	3	$39
Bioventus LLC	2	$38
Merck	2	$35
Reprise Biomedical, Inc.	2	$31
Conmed Corporation	1	$24
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$21
Lifenet Health	1	$20
Triad Life Sciences Inc.	1	$20
Convatec Inc.	1	$19
Stryker	1	$18
Vertex	1	$18
Solventum Corporation	1	$18
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$18
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$18
Coopersurgical, Inc.	1	$17
Baxter Healthcare	1	$16
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$16
Misonix Inc	1	$14
Medline Industries LP	1	$13
Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc.	1	$6
Bolder Surgical LLC	1	$5

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

$15,290 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 223 surgery providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$260,014

Medicare patients

456

Services billed

1,439

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	139	$88,621
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	332	$2,063
Doxycycline Hyclate	27	$423
Tramadol Hcl	34	$73
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	11	$53

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Jackson

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Juvonda HodgeJackson$77K
Jonathan CarrollJackson$33K
Andrew MalletteJackson$29K
Alison AcottJackson$26K
Samuel YelvertonJackson$25K
Kenneth ClevelandJackson$20K
David CarrollJackson$18K
Gina HeathJackson$16K
Jenetta ThompsonJackson$16K

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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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