Andrew Harris, MD
Hand Surgery · Knoxville, TNNPI 1134566466
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (39.2%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alpha Orthopedic Systems at 36.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,479 and has fallen 88.1% since, to $294 in 2025.
Across 45 payments — averaging $136.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$2K
- Arthrex$2K
- Techmah Medical, LLC$800
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$241
- Zimmer Biomet$241
- Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC$182
- plus $773 from 8 others
Across 30 payments — averaging $4046.29 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company$103K
- AbbVie$14K
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$80013%
- Travel & lodging$78613%
- Food & beverage$2,14435%
- Education$2,40039%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 12 | $2,219 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $1,673 |
| Techmah Medical, LLC | 1 | $800 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 11 | $241 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $241 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 4 | $182 |
| Intellijoint Surgical Inc. | 1 | $180 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $156 |
| Stryker | 1 | $116 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $92 |
| Breas Medical, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Vertex | 1 | $17 |
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
$6,129 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 60 hand surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 19 | $58 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Knoxville
- Joshua MossKnoxville$17K
- Kent RinehartKnoxville$9K
- Kristen PloetzeKnoxville$7K
- David CooperKnoxville$3K
- Benjamin RogozinskiKnoxville$2K
- Edward BurnsKnoxville$2K
- Robert IvyKnoxville$1K
- Timothy RenfreeKnoxville$1K
- Richard SmithKnoxville$378
- John HarrisonKnoxville$347
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.