Austin Davidson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Knoxville, TNNPI 1598185092
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $41,947 of the $56,351 with a category attached, or 74.4%. Forma Medical accounts for 64.3% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $42,512, more than ten times the $409 reported in 2019.
Across 118 payments — averaging $477.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Forma Medical$36K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$7K
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$5K
- Vilex LLC$3K
- Arthrex$2K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$854
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$41,94774%
- Travel & lodging$5,2749%
- Food & beverage$5,2009%
- Education$3,9307%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Forma Medical | 5 | $36,247 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 9 | $6,961 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 51 | $5,203 |
| Vilex LLC | 8 | $2,584 |
| Arthrex | 13 | $2,280 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 4 | $854 |
| Stryker | 9 | $792 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $330 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 2 | $248 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $223 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 3 | $217 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $118 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $55 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $13 |
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.
- OptimalMTP$36,247
- MagnetOs$6,783
- HINTERMANN$1,839
- Lapiplasty System$713
- REDEMPTION$500
- SALVATION$174
- Prokera$148
- AmnioGraft$148
- AmnioGuard$148
- Additive Orthopedics$130
- INBONE$127
- HALL POWER$118
- BioBrace 23mm$118
- ORTHOLOC 3DI CROSSCHECK$115
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$110
- PROPHECY$101
How this compares
$56,351 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 381 orthopaedic 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 Hcl | 62 | $187 |
| Ibuprofen | 36 | $166 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 16 | $165 |
| Meloxicam | 75 | $164 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $105 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Knoxville
- Paul BradyKnoxville$20M
- Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
- Paul NaylorKnoxville$184K
- George HollowayKnoxville$124K
- Harold CatesKnoxville$106K
- Adam ShortKnoxville$87K
- Brian EdkinKnoxville$60K
- Benjamin WeisenthalKnoxville$52K
- Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
- Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M
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.