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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,802 in general payments to James Wood, MD across 35 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 Wood, 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 Wood, 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 Wood, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Virginia Beach, VANPI 1174186183

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,007 of the $2,802 with a category attached, or 71.6%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 43.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,192 and has fallen 96.0% since, to $48 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $4,360.

$2,802in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $80.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$1K
Spinal Simplicity, LLC$1K
Nevro Corp.$212
Boston Scientific$122
Abbott$34
Si-bone, Inc.$26

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,00772%
Food & beverage$79628%

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
Medtronic	12	$1,228
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	13	$1,181
Nevro Corp.	6	$212
Boston Scientific	2	$122
Abbott	1	$34
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$26

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

$2,802 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 52 interventional pain medicine providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$89,026

Medicare patients

271

Services billed

3,290

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
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate	21	$11,031
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate	14	$8,043
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl	11	$6,545
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	168	$5,678
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	137	$3,564
Oxycodone Hcl	175	$3,151
Buprenorphine	13	$3,046
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	24	$628
Tizanidine Hcl	40	$451
Gabapentin	37	$349
Pregabalin	15	$329
Tramadol Hcl	33	$204
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	19	$150
Prednisone	35	$89
Meloxicam	16	$37

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Ketan PatelHaymarket$133K
Che TorryNewport News$48K
Niteesh BhararaReston$25K
Sassan HassassianManassas$24K
Raj SurejaNewport News$23K
Benjamin SeemanRichmond$21K
Alok GopalWinchester$16K
Jacob LeeWinchester$14K
Yaoming GuRichmond$13K

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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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