Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.
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Dr. James Barger, DO

Individual provider General Practice Physician · NPI 1861733172

Dr. James Barger, DO practises General Surgery in Arlington, Washington. Qualified in 2013, 13 years ago. Practices with Public Hospital Dist No 1 Skagit, a 321-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in Ohio and Washington.

Years since qualifying
13
Licensed in
OH, WA
In the registry since
2013
Specialties on file
3
What do these letters mean?
DO — Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
A fully licensed physician, trained like an MD with additional musculoskeletal training. Equivalent practice rights in all 50 states.

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Practice location Address checks out

3823 172nd St NE
Arlington, WA 98223-7735
Phone: (360) 428-2500
Fax: (360) 657-8750
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Specialties & licences

Surgery Physician (primary) Taxonomy 208600000X · Licence OP60815058 (WA)
General Practice Physician Taxonomy 208D00000X · Licence 34.011960 (OH)
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program Taxonomy 390200000X

Record details

NPI number1861733172
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials DO
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedMarch 12, 2013
Last updated in NPPESOctober 22, 2021
Certification dateOctober 22, 2021

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyGENERAL SURGERY
Medical schoolOTHER
Graduated 2013 (13 years in practice)
Group practice Public Hospital Dist No 1 Skagit — 321 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy for acid reflux 19 times · 50th percentile
Colonoscopy 20 times · 48th percentile
Hernia repair (minimally invasive) 1–10 times
Hernia repair - groin (open) 1–10 times
Removal of tissue 1–10 times

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients106
Services billed 196 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age73

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Food and Beverage $23 1 payment · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

Colleagues at Public Hospital Dist No 1 Skagit

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 321 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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