James Stephens, DO
Pain Medicine · Norman, OKNPI 1235459413
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (45.4%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 49 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 24.0%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,297 and has fallen 80.1% since, to $2,053 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in OK 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 355 payments — averaging $110.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$9K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$9K
- Boston Scientific$8K
- Southern Spine, LLC$5K
- Nevro Corp.$1K
- Abbott$888
- plus $6K from 43 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,75045%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,37524%
- Travel & lodging$2,2806%
- Food & beverage$9,69625%
- Education$160%
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.
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.
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$9,121
- Superion ISS$8,622
- SUPERION$3,375
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$3,000
- Intracept$1,570
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$370
- Senza$265
- ReActiv8$186
- GAMMA$153
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$145
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$141
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$139
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION SYSTEM$130
- Mobi-C$125
- Omnia$123
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$111
- SPINEJACK$107
- Proclaim IPG$103
How this compares
$39,116 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 68 pain medicine providers in Oklahoma.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 440 | $176,579 |
| Nucynta ErTapentadol Hcl | 39 | $54,646 |
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 62 | $52,906 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 1,009 | $29,213 |
| Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate | 30 | $12,250 |
| MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate | 16 | $7,090 |
| SymproicNaldemedine Tosylate | 13 | $5,916 |
| Buprenorphine | 21 | $5,774 |
| Gabapentin | 340 | $4,400 |
| Pregabalin | 216 | $4,394 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 187 | $4,256 |
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 11 | $2,413 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 214 | $2,350 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 110 | $1,538 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 84 | $1,485 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Nucynta Er, Belbuca, Xtampza Er | $285 | $119,803131 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 68 pain medicine providers in Oklahoma.
Other pain medicine in Norman
- Sailesh ArulkumarOklahoma City$162K
- Emily PollardOklahoma City$134K
- Tyler PhillipsOklahoma City$36K
- Jeffrey MillerMoore$33K
- Nevinson SamEdmond$27K
- John NelsonOklahoma City$26K
- Rafael JustizOklahoma City$25K
- Bruce MackeyEdmond$14K
- Brian TorgersonTulsa$13K
- Lam NguyenTulsa$11K
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.