Whitney James, MD
Neurological Surgery · Prescott, AZNPI 1144582248
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $34,395 of the $55,031 with a category attached, or 62.5%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 57.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $26,009 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $274 in 2024.
Across 340 payments — averaging $161.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$32K
- Abbott$17K
- Flowonix Medical Incorporated$1K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$1K
- Si-bone, Inc.$871
- Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC$762
- plus $2K from 20 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $1296.33 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.
- Abbott$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,3756%
- Speaking & faculty fees$34,39563%
- Travel & lodging$6,98713%
- Food & beverage$9,15217%
- Entertainment$1,1232%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 76 | $31,677 |
| Abbott | 175 | $17,001 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 2 | $1,490 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 26 | $1,109 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 11 | $871 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 9 | $762 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 4 | $330 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $315 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 5 | $269 |
| Painteq LLC | 3 | $233 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 1 | $175 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $173 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $116 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $108 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $61 |
| Stryker | 1 | $43 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $42 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $41 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $15 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| AbbVie | 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.
- PROCLAIM$13,179
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$8,665
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$2,000
- Prometra II$1,490
- PRODIGY$1,069
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$833
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$750
- Axium$710
- Evoke SCS$604
- Senza$243
- SlMMETRY$204
- PAINTEQ$185
- Blackhawk Ti$175
- Boomerang$175
- Stratofuse$175
- Raven Lumbar Plate System$175
- Tiger Shark C$175
- BIOTRONIK$173
- iFuse Implant$158
- Proclaim IPG$145
How this compares
$55,031 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 173 neurological surgery providers in Arizona.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Prescott
- Michael SughruePrescott$297K
- Robert SpetzlerPhoenix$12.8M
- Juan UribePhoenix$6.7M
- Stephen PapadopoulosPhoenix$6M
- Volker SonntagPhoenix$2M
- Richard ChuaTucson$1.3M
- Jay TurnerPhoenix$1.2M
- Steve ChangChandler$1.1M
- Frederick MarcianoScottsdale$809K
- Michael LawtonPhoenix$761K
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.