James Tieman, MD
Family Medicine · South Bend, INNPI 1831173038
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 609 payments — averaging $16.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$962
- Novo Nordisk$922
- GSK$866
- Lilly USA, LLC$796
- Pfizer$587
- plus $5K from 48 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6306%
- Food & beverage$9,15493%
- Education$110%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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.
How this compares
$9,795 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,709 family medicine providers in Indiana.
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 | 177 | $162,691 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 102 | $95,478 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 74 | $87,125 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 72 | $76,211 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 60 | $66,630 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 56 | $50,847 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 59 | $37,667 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 28 | $27,161 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 37 | $23,139 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 22 | $22,500 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 35 | $19,848 |
| InvokanaCanagliflozin | 12 | $19,691 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 26 | $19,568 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 25 | $16,492 |
| Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate | 26 | $12,563 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $587 | $162,691177 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Combivent Respimat, Spiriva Respimat | $962 | $113,653139 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Dulera | $113 | $91,26686 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta | $866 | $77,083120 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $796 | $76,21172 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto, Invokana | $146 | $70,53868 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $922 | $66,63060 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Bevespi Aerosphere | $544 | $38,96651 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $293 | $23,13937 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $1,074 | $5,95211 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus | $67 | $2,90325 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 90th percentile of 2,709 family medicine providers in Indiana.
Other family medicine in South Bend
- Blair BrengleIndianapolis$10.6M
- Laura HelmanMishawaka$4M
- J Christopher SartoreEvansville$3.9M
- Hubert ReyesEvansville$3.2M
- David SchultzEvansville$3M
- Steven SmithIndianapolis$2.5M
- Renee Michelle GalenNewburgh$2.1M
- Eric HewittAvon$1.7M
- Alexander Dela LlanaEvansville$1.6M
- Jonathan ConditMuncie$1.6M
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.