James Worthen, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1922217215
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 67 payments — averaging $66.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$294
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$202
- Orthalign Inc$202
- Innovation Technologies Inc$168
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$162
- plus $525 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,78840%
- Food & beverage$2,69460%
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 23 | $2,929 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 8 | $294 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 11 | $202 |
| Orthalign Inc | 2 | $202 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $168 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $162 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $121 |
| Vertex | 3 | $57 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $51 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $50 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $33 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $31 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $14 |
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.
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$982
- MAKO$821
- Irrisept$168
- REUNION$149
- ORTHALIGN PLUS$147
- Stimulan$121
- HEALIX KNOTLESS PEEK$117
- DYNATAPE$117
- Gryphon Orthocord$117
- CellerateRx$112
How this compares
$4,483 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 319 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 86 | $2,024 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 141 | $1,117 |
| Methocarbamol | 78 | $629 |
| Methylprednisolone | 62 | $541 |
| Prednisone | 97 | $348 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 53 | $290 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 19 | $170 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 12 | $156 |
| Cephalexin | 44 | $154 |
| Ibuprofen | 22 | $135 |
| Amoxicillin | 86 | $105 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $101 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 35 | $100 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 11 | $98 |
| Meloxicam | 24 | $95 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Birmingham
- Jeffrey DugasBirmingham$11.7M
- Benton EmblomBirmingham$3.1M
- Herrick SiegelBirmingham$1.3M
- Kenneth MooreBirmingham$342K
- Jeffrey DavisBirmingham$293K
- Joseph SherrillBirmingham$221K
- Jonathan QuadeBirmingham$219K
- Ginger BryantBirmingham$209K
- Marcus RothermichBirmingham$207K
- Richard SandersBirmingham$179K
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.