Has Billy Parsley, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $83,595 in general payments to Billy Parsley, MD across 188 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 Billy Parsley, 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 Billy Parsley, 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.

Billy Parsley, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Greeneville, TNNPI 1255544904

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $59,588 of the $83,595 with a category attached, or 71.3%. Arthrex accounts for 98.8% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $20,200 and has fallen 76.3% since, to $4,795 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery 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.

$83,595in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 188 payments — averaging $444.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$83K
Alpha Orthopedic Systems$403
Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC$381
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$70
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$44
Medtronic$32
plus $81 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,6752%
Speaking & faculty fees$59,58871%
Travel & lodging$17,17521%
Food & beverage$3,8075%
Education$1,3502%

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
Arthrex	168	$82,583
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	6	$403
Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC	3	$381
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC	1	$70
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$44
Medtronic	2	$32
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$27
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$20
Endo USA, Inc.	1	$20
Convatec Inc.	1	$14

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.

ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS ANATOMIC TOTAL SHOULDER ECLIPSE$124

How this compares

$83,595 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 381 orthopaedic surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$72,830

Medicare patients

195

Services billed

1,727

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	142	$1,319
Naloxone Hcl	16	$902
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	83	$807
Prednisone	21	$196
Ondansetron Hcl	33	$146
Naproxen	16	$112
Meloxicam	41	$101
Promethazine Hcl	20	$57
Tramadol Hcl	12	$36

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Greeneville

Paul BradyKnoxville$20M
Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M
Alton HunterColumbia$820K
Jefferson MorrisonNashville$678K
Michael BeebeMemphis$626K
Gregory PolkowskiNashville$526K
Matthew WillisNashville$498K
Michael ChristieNashville$474K

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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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