Ron James, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Sacramento, CANPI 1437237104
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 167 payments — averaging $249.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lima USA, Inc.$18K
- Smith+Nephew$8K
- Maxx Orthopedics, Inc.$4K
- Conformis, Inc.$3K
- Stryker$3K
- Restor3d, Inc.$2K
- plus $2K from 19 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $2100.00 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.
- Maxx Orthopedics, Inc.$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,2003%
- Travel & lodging$28,19768%
- Food & beverage$12,23129%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lima USA, Inc. | 10 | $18,385 |
| Smith+Nephew | 58 | $7,775 |
| Maxx Orthopedics, Inc. | 10 | $4,311 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 24 | $3,497 |
| Stryker | 24 | $3,155 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 10 | $2,008 |
| Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC | 1 | $344 |
| International Life Sciences | 2 | $338 |
| Ortho Development Corporation | 5 | $321 |
| Orthalign Inc | 2 | $271 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $177 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 3 | $166 |
| Insight Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $146 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $145 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $98 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Moximed, Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $17 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
| Orthogenrx 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.
- H-Max$17,875
- Master SL$17,875
- iTotal, Identity CR$2,540
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$2,480
- MAKO$2,097
- CORI$1,709
- Delta TT Cups$1,200
- Journey II$1,080
- POLAR3$1,080
- POLARSTEM$835
- Hip$710
- NAVIO$578
- iTotal CR, iTotal PS, iUni, Hip System$494
- iNSitu Hip System$344
- FLEXBAND$338
- iTotal Identity PS$320
- Physica$310
- R3 ACETABULAR$293
- Anthology$267
- Regeneten$234
How this compares
$41,629 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.
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 | 135 | $5,604 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 172 | $1,479 |
| Gabapentin | 107 | $959 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 26 | $182 |
| Amoxicillin | 40 | $51 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 13 | $42 |
| Meloxicam | 24 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Sacramento
- Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
- Christopher KreulenSacramento$3.8M
- Alan HiraharaSacramento$3.4M
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Robert GorabOrange$14.5M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
- Peter NewtonSan Diego$7M
- Nirav AminPlacentia$5.8M
- Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
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.