Industry payments to physicians · Tennessee · 2024

Tennessee

In Tennessee, drug and device makers reported $79M in general payments to 24,528 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $3,205 each — plus $192M tied to research and $38M in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.

$79M

general payments

24,528

covered recipients paid

$3,205

mean per physician

Top specialties in Tennessee

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Neurological Surgery $18M $147,990/phys

Plastic Surgery $7M $107,066/phys

Orthopaedic Surgery $7M $24,505/phys

Family $3M $757/phys

Hematology & Oncology $2M $10,744/phys

Vascular Surgery $2M $22,192/phys

Psychiatry $2M $8,666/phys

Urology $2M $8,033/phys

Pulmonary Disease $1M $6,037/phys

Interventional Cardiology $1M $7,602/phys

Physician Assistant $1M $987/phys

Gastroenterology $1M $5,667/phys

Highest-paid physicians in Tennessee

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Kevin Foley Neurological Surgery · Memphis · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $17M

George Maxwell Plastic Surgery · Nashville · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $7M

Paul Brady Orthopaedic Surgery · Knoxville · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $5M

Daniel Clair Vascular Surgery · Nashville · top payer: ShockWave Medical, Inc $847,874

Anton Dias Perera Vascular Surgery · Germantown · top payer: Convatec Inc. $821,081

Rakesh Amin Psychiatry · Nashville · top payer: Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $699,837

Maurice Smith Neurological Surgery · Memphis · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $655,540

Brian Bonfardin Psychiatry · Johnson City · top payer: Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. $582,618

Karen Slobod Pediatric Infectious Diseases · Memphis · top payer: ModernaTX, Inc. $562,575

Jesse Doty Orthopaedic Surgery · Chattanooga · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $514,940

Steve Charles Retina Specialist · Germantown · top payer: Alcon Research LLC $468,754

Britton Woodward Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Knoxville · top payer: Imperative Care, Inc $431,082

Deborah Sherman Ophthalmology · Nashville · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $397,475

L Knoll Urology · Nashville · top payer: Boston Scientific Corporation $390,310

Thomas Throckmorton Orthopaedic Surgery · Germantown · top payer: Exactech, Inc. $389,491

Cory Calendine Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Franklin · top payer: Stryker Corporation $327,570

Dmitry Yaranov Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Memphis · top payer: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $294,527

John Fenley Psychiatry · Johnson City · top payer: ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) $291,090

Ziad Younes Gastroenterology · Germantown · top payer: Janssen Biotech, Inc. $277,141

Edwin Spencer Orthopaedic Surgery · Knoxville · top payer: Stryker Corporation $268,324

Kimberly Vincent Unspecified · Nashville · top payer: UCB, Inc. $258,961

Adrian Rodriguez Dermatology · Nashville · top payer: LEO Pharma Inc. $253,266

Grayson Wheatley Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Nashville · top payer: Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $239,376

Shirley Shiller Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology · Nashville · top payer: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $237,612

Roger Dmochowski Urology · Nashville · top payer: BLUEWIND MEDICAL $235,049

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Tennessee — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.