James Wheless, MD
Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology · Memphis, TNNPI 1659337855
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,890 payments — averaging $1341.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- SK Life Science, Inc.$440K
- Neurelis, Inc.$254K
- UCB, Inc.$219K
- Eisai Inc.$216K
- GW Research Limited$166K
- UCB Biosciences Inc.$165K
- plus $1.1M from 35 others
Across 89 payments — averaging $1254.40 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.
- Neurelis, Inc.$53K
- Neuropace, Inc.$42K
- UCB, Inc.$17K
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.
How this compares
$2,534,895 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 47 neurology with special qualifications in child neurology providers in Tennessee.
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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.
Other neurology with special qualifications in child neurology in Memphis
- Richard FinkelMemphis$3.7M
- Ankita GhoshMemphis$108K
- Kathleen Nicole JalandoniMemphis$15K
- Stephen FultonMemphis$2K
- Connor GatewoodMemphis$2K
- Robin JackMemphis$2K
- Marianna Rivas-CoppolaMemphis$1K
- Namrata ShahMemphis$1K
- Andrew SchroederMemphis$1K
- Jenny SchmidtMemphis$787
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.