James Stanford, DO
Sports Medicine · Athens, ALNPI 1447565775
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (39.0%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Prime Surgical, LLC accounts for 68.9% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,317 and has fallen 87.8% since, to $160 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for sports medicine clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $4,051.
Across 34 payments — averaging $96.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Prime Surgical, LLC$2K
- Arthrex$326
- Kerecis Limited$155
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$143
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$83
- Johnson & Johnson$83
- plus $224 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$79224%
- Food & beverage$1,27339%
- Education$1,20037%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 10 | $2,250 |
| Arthrex | 7 | $326 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $155 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $143 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $83 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $77 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $60 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $23 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$3,265 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 108 sports medicine providers in Alabama.
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 | 14 | $4,226 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 447 | $3,179 |
| Methylprednisolone | 157 | $1,125 |
| Celecoxib | 63 | $1,092 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 102 | $858 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 95 | $704 |
| Methocarbamol | 94 | $471 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 69 | $332 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 110 | $323 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 62 | $322 |
| Cefdinir | 20 | $315 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 34 | $193 |
| Naproxen | 35 | $178 |
| Levofloxacin | 31 | $146 |
| Meloxicam | 53 | $144 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Athens
- Joseph BoyettAthens$4K
- Edward CainBirmingham$12.7M
- Daniel MatthewsDaphne$190K
- Mark RogersBirmingham$94K
- Amit MomayaBirmingham$77K
- Matthew SmithGuntersville$73K
- Christoper GarrettBirmingham$58K
- Jonathan IsbellHoover$55K
- James McMurtrieHuntsville$54K
- Reaves CrabtreeBirmingham$47K
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.