Kevin James, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Southlake, TXNPI 1669530267
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $652,000 of the $700,602 with a category attached, or 93.1%. Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC accounts for 97.1% of it on its own, with 26 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in TX 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.
Across 168 payments — averaging $4170.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC$680K
- Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.$5K
- Corelink, LLC$4K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$3K
- Si-bone, Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- plus $3K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$27,6994%
- Consulting fees$652,00093%
- Travel & lodging$6,8401%
- Food & beverage$13,6022%
- Entertainment$4600%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC | 16 | $679,950 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 5 | $5,179 |
| Corelink, LLC | 19 | $4,006 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 21 | $3,184 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 26 | $2,960 |
| Medtronic | 29 | $1,886 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 5 | $543 |
| Abbott | 12 | $492 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 2 | $347 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 2 | $332 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $288 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 5 | $269 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $247 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $220 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 3 | $205 |
| Alevio, LLC | 1 | $190 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $52 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $33 |
| Stryker | 1 | $33 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $17 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $16 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $6 |
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.
- iFuse Implant$2,357
- ARAI SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM$2,160
- CORTERA$1,755
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$1,156
- Medical Device$347
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$291
- Rampart Duo Interbody Fusion System$247
- Connexx System$200
- STREAMLINE TL SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM$198
- SICURE SACROILIAC JOINT FUSION SYSTEM$190
- FORTILINK CAGES WITH TIPLUS TECHNOLOGY$153
- UNID_PASS$144
- SPINAL IMPLANT$144
- Nexxt Spine Product Portfolio$132
How this compares
$700,602 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 24 | $375 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $181 |
| Mupirocin | 15 | $87 |
| Vitamin D2Ergocalciferol (Vitamin D2) | 11 | $75 |
| Diazepam | 15 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Southlake
- Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
- Craig KuhnsAustin$2.4M
- David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
- Jeffrey PhelpsNorth Richland Hills$1.9M
- Eric WieserArlington$1.5M
- Andrew ClavennaDallas$1.3M
- Ivan ChengKyle$1.2M
- Stephen TolhurstFlower Mound$1.1M
- Michael ObrienPlano$1M
- Mohammad EtminanRichmond$1M
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.