Has Andrew Carlone, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,622 in general payments to Andrew Carlone, MD across 94 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Andrew Carlone, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Andrew Carlone, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Andrew Carlone, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1083076459

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 78.0% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $7,596 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $204 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $17,622.

$17,622in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 94 payments — averaging $187.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Encore Medical, LP$14K
Stryker$2K
Osteoremedies, LLC$369
Linkbio Corp$364
Alpha Orthopedic Systems$195
Zimmer Biomet$193
plus $1K from 14 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$7,50043%
Travel & lodging$5,60132%
Food & beverage$4,52126%

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
Encore Medical, LP	44	$13,749
Stryker	15	$1,735
Osteoremedies, LLC	4	$369
Linkbio Corp	2	$364
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	2	$195
Zimmer Biomet	3	$193
Smith+Nephew	2	$157
Orthalign Inc	1	$128
Johnson & Johnson	1	$125
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$114
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$100
Medtronic	4	$77
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$59
AbbVie	3	$56
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	3	$50
Linvatec Corporation	2	$41
Bioventus LLC	1	$35
UOC USA Inc	1	$29
Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC	1	$26
Solventum Corporation	1	$20

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.

How this compares

$17,622 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 27 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$294,907

Medicare patients

463

Services billed

2,683

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
Celecoxib	61	$1,445
Oxycodone Hcl	114	$575
Gabapentin	75	$555
Cefadroxil	81	$466
Methylprednisolone	35	$223
Omeprazole	40	$180
Meloxicam	34	$102
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	16	$96
Methocarbamol	12	$67
Tramadol Hcl	14	$31

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Chattanooga

Mark FreemanChattanooga$84K
Cory CalendineFranklin$2.5M
William KurtzBrentwood$774K
Conrad IvieKnoxville$609K
Brian PerkinsonFranklin$229K
Andrew ShinarNashville$151K
William CarpenterNashville$146K
Christopher HollandGermantown$71K
Larry JohnsonJackson$55K
Matthew ChristieNashville$47K

See the full list for Tennessee →

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.

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