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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $46,143 in general payments to James Womack, MD across 208 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 Womack, 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 Womack, 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 Womack, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Clinton, MONPI 1275755530

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (56.7%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Think Surgical, Inc. accounts for 73.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$46,143in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 208 payments — averaging $221.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Think Surgical, Inc.$34K
Encore Medical, LP$7K
Zimmer Biomet$2K
Stryker$2K
Linvatec Corporation$1K
Titan Surgical Group, LLC$167
plus $304 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$10,95024%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,5003%
Travel & lodging$26,18257%
Food & beverage$7,27716%
Education$2341%

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
Think Surgical, Inc.	74	$33,878
Encore Medical, LP	28	$7,016
Zimmer Biomet	17	$1,756
Stryker	71	$1,746
Linvatec Corporation	8	$1,277
Titan Surgical Group, LLC	5	$167
Kinamed, Inc.	1	$149
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$80
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$36
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$25
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$13

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.

TMINI Miniature Robotic System$18,802
Tsolution One Surgical System$13,893
DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$3,821
DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$2,303
DJO Surgical 3DKnee System$1,320
Oxford$1,075
LINVATEC SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY$786
DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$442
MAKO$368
REUNION$265
DJO SURGICAL$254
OXFORD PARTIAL KNEE$234
LINVATEC HIP PRESERVATION SYSTEM$226
DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$165
LINVATEC KNEE PRESERVATION SYSTEM$160
ACCOLADE$119
TRITANIUM$119
VARIAX$103
ZNN$100

How this compares

$46,143 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 455 orthopaedic surgery providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$230,815

Medicare patients

471

Services billed

1,131

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	202	$1,988
Diclofenac Sodium	78	$806
Doxycycline Hyclate	17	$536
Clindamycin Hcl	54	$251
Methylprednisolone	30	$217
Cephalexin	40	$199
Tramadol Hcl	41	$164
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	38	$159
Celecoxib	25	$148
Amoxicillin	25	$20

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Clinton

Matthew SmithColumbia$2.9M
Jay KeenerSaint Louis$2.2M
John WatsonSaint Louis$1.7M
Peter ChalmersSaint Louis$603K
Katherine BurnsBridgeton$491K
Jeremy StattonLees Summit$457K
Lionel MetzSaint Louis$428K
Michael HellmanLees Summit$365K
Jon CarlsonSaint Louis$354K
Akin CilKansas City$318K

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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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