Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

JAMES P TOWNSON

Podiatric Medicine & Surgery Service Providers Podiatrist Foot & Ankle Surgery

NPI
1699039800
CMS profile
382612
Location
GATESVILLE, TX

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$4,987.86

  • Reported across 70 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$291.31

11 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $291.31 11

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
ORGANOGENESIS INC. $78.13 2
Medtronic, Inc. $62.26 3
Bioventus LLC $46.32 2
Pylant Medical $39.96 1
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $31.74 1
TREACE MEDICAL CONCEPTS, INC. $18.28 1
Smith & Nephew, Inc. $14.62 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $1,055.40 3
PY2019 $50.78 3
PY2020 $111.03 6
PY2021 $2,974.06 31
PY2022 $262.73 9
PY2023 $242.55 7
PY2024 $291.31 11

Payment records · PY2024 (11)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Bioventus LLC $18.26 04/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137450673 CMS
Bioventus LLC $28.06 10/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137450675 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $21.80 01/31/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119437583 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $19.34 03/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119437585 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $21.12 07/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119437587 CMS
Organogenesis Inc. $31.67 10/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145449870 CMS
Organogenesis Inc. $46.46 11/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145449874 CMS
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $31.74 03/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1151248035 CMS
Pylant Medical $39.96 05/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1126527872 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $14.62 06/19/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1149511654 CMS
TREACE MEDICAL CONCEPTS, INC. $18.28 07/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1151431954 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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