Abshan Malik, DPM
Podiatrist · Knoxville, TNNPI 1053937045
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
It is spread thinly across 29 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.5%. Among podiatrist clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 125 payments — averaging $104.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$3K
- Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC$2K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$2K
- Acumed LLC$1K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$950
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$739
- plus $3K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,93046%
- Food & beverage$7,07754%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 16 | $2,929 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 19 | $2,242 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 17 | $1,828 |
| Acumed LLC | 12 | $1,467 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 5 | $950 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 7 | $739 |
| Stryker | 8 | $698 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 5 | $505 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $295 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $270 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $162 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $132 |
| Amgen | 1 | $119 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $103 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $97 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Voom Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| My01 Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $10 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- TrueLok$2,640
- PICO$2,172
- ACUMED$1,879
- Grafix$1,774
- Versajet$1,529
- COLLAGENASE SANTYL$1,529
- Portfolio$697
- Lapiplasty System$591
- InnovaMatrix AC$270
- Oasis$246
- Stravix$246
- EASYFUSE$210
- KRYSTEXXA$119
- INFINITY ADAPTIS$113
- VIA MATRIX$105
- SALVATION$105
- HOFFMANN$105
- VALOR$105
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$105
- OsteoMed$105
How this compares
$13,008 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 105 podiatrist providers in Tennessee.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 64 | $398 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 15 | $231 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 52 | $179 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Knoxville
- Kelly BumpusKnoxville$8K
- David SandbergKnoxville$5K
- Timothy GardnerKnoxville$4K
- Heather SandbergKnoxville$3K
- Kendale RitcheyKnoxville$2K
- Robert HancockKnoxville$1K
- Phillip HaslerKnoxville$1K
- Ivan CooperKnoxville$829
- James GilleyKnoxville$518
- Jeffrey LovelandSparta$809K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.