Brian Edkin, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Knoxville, TNNPI 1174505093
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $49,438 of the $59,686 with a category attached, or 82.8%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 92.3% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $35,629 and has fallen 93.9% since, to $2,162 in 2025.
Across 126 payments — averaging $473.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$55K
- Stryker$4K
- C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$146
- Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC$141
- Medacta USA, Inc.$115
- Radius Health, Inc.$72
- plus $208 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$49,43883%
- Travel & lodging$4,4928%
- Food & beverage$4,7238%
- Education$1,0332%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 70 | $55,086 |
| Stryker | 41 | $3,917 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $146 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 1 | $141 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $64 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $27 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $25 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| Vertex | 1 | $17 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- Oxford$17,097
- Vanguard$16,615
- Arcos$11,774
- G7$10,875
- Oxford-Knees$6,625
- TRIATHLON$1,144
- Persona$1,033
- OXFORD PARTIAL KNEE$1,033
- INSTRUMENT$909
- MAKO$644
- ROSA$375
- MAKOPLASTY$151
- Channel Drain$146
- GMK SPHERE$115
- ROSA-Knee$103
How this compares
$59,686 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin | 37 | $246 |
| Meloxicam | 36 | $121 |
| Cephalexin | 18 | $91 |
| Prednisone | 31 | $62 |
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
- Austin DavidsonKnoxville$56K
- 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.