James A Durden, MD

Primary specialty

Emergency Medicine PhysicianTaxonomy code 207P00000X

License

92132 Issued in SC

Practice address

606 Black River Rd
Georgetown, SC 29440-3304

Phone

(843) 527-7000

Fax

(843) 520-8403

NPI assigned

Mar 27, 2021

Last updated

Nov 21, 2025By the provider in NPPES

Sex

Male

Sole proprietor

No

Registry information is reported by the provider to CMS and is not verified. About this source

Specialties & licenses 2

Addresses

Electronic endpoints 2

Medicare fee-for-service enrollment

Enrolled in AL, SC2 enrollments

Eligible to order & refer

• Part B services: Yes
• Medical equipment: Yes
• Home health: Yes
• Power mobility devices: Yes
• Hospice: Yes

Green means eligible to order or refer.

Enrollment records 2

Specialty

Emergency Medicine

Education

Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine, 2021

Medicare assignment

Accepts the Medicare-approved amount as payment in full

Group practices

Georgetown Memorial HospitalGroup PAC ID 8224942123, 90 clinicians

Practice addresses (Care Compare)

Hospital & facility affiliations

• Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital Hospital, Murrells Inlet, SC, CCN 420098
• Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital Hospital, Georgetown, SC, CCN 420020

Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)

Final score

80.46 of 100Reported as group

Quality

47.5

Promoting interoperability

100

Improvement activities

40

Cost

83.42

Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)

Final score

85.35 of 100Reported as group

Quality

79.64

Improvement activities

40

Cost

79.95

Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)

Final score

88.55 of 100Reported as group

Quality

85

Promoting interoperability

100

Improvement activities

40

Cost

76.83

Medicare enrollment (NPD)

Enrolled

Credentials

Doctor of Medicine

State licenses

Practice roles

Locations

Interoperability endpoints

• Direct secure messaging: jdurden474859@direct.musc.edu

Organizations this provider is connected to: Medicare benefit reassignments (the organization bills Medicare for this provider’s services), Care Compare group memberships, National Provider Directory roles and organizations whose NPPES authorized official is this provider.

• Georgetown Memorial Hospital

  dba Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital

  • General Acute Care Hospital
  • Georgetown, SC
  • NPI 1982604021
  Medicare reassignment Care Compare group NPD
• Waccamaw Community Hospital

  dba Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital

  • General Acute Care Hospital
  • Murrells Inlet, SC
  • NPI 1972503910
  Medicare reassignment NPD
• Georgetown Memorial Hospital

  dba Tidelands Health Skilled Care

  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • Georgetown, SC
  • NPI 1881307056
  NPD

Hospitals and other facilities this clinician is affiliated with according to Medicare Care Compare.

• Georgetown Memorial Hospital

  dba Tidelands Health Skilled Care

  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • Georgetown, SC
  • NPI 1881307056

  Hospital

  Care Compare affiliation
• Georgetown Memorial Hospital

  dba Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital

  • General Acute Care Hospital
  • Georgetown, SC
  • NPI 1982604021
  Care Compare affiliation
• Waccamaw Community Hospital

  dba Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital

  • General Acute Care Hospital
  • Murrells Inlet, SC
  • NPI 1972503910
  Care Compare affiliation

The complete NPPES record for this NPI in the NPI Registry API format.

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• Emergency Medicine Physician in Georgetown, SC
• Providers in Georgetown, SC by specialty
• Emergency Medicine Physician in South Carolina

• NPPES NPI Registry (CMS): identity, addresses, specialties, licenses, identifiers and endpoints. Last updated by the provider on Nov 21, 2025; self-reported and not verified by CMS. Specialty names from the NUCC taxonomy.
• Medicare enrollment (CMS PECOS): enrollments, PAC IDs and benefit reassignments; Order and Referring.
• Medicare Care Compare (CMS): clinician profile, group practices, facility affiliations, MIPS scores and star ratings.
• National Provider Directory (CMS): practice roles, locations, licenses, networks and endpoints.

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