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

James Ross Stone, MD

Individual provider Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1578958286

James Ross Stone, MD is registered under Cardiovascular Disease (Cardiology) in Harlingen, Texas. Qualified in 2013, 13 years ago. Practices with South Heart Clinic, PLLC, a 15-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in Texas.

Years since qualifying
13
Licensed in
TX
In the registry since
2015
Specialties on file
2
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

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Practice location Address checks out

Student / training record This NPI belongs to someone enrolled in a health care training programme. It carries no licence and no practice of its own, so no address or phone number is published for it.

Harlingen, TX

Specialties & licences

Cardiovascular Disease Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207RC0000X · Licence R4477 (TX)
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program Taxonomy 390200000X

Record details

NPI number1578958286
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedMarch 30, 2015
Last updated in NPPESFebruary 25, 2026
Certification dateFebruary 25, 2026

Medicare enrollment

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

Medicare specialtyCARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CARDIOLOGY)
Also practisesINTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY
Medical schoolOTHER
Graduated 2013 (13 years in practice)
Group practice South Heart Clinic, Pllc — 15 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.

Coronary angioplasty and stenting 31 times · 65th percentile
Leg revascularization (restoring blood flow) 13 times · 62nd percentile

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 patients528
Services billed 1,561 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age76

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 $502 11 payments · 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 South Heart Clinic, PLLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 15 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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