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Brian Gerndt, MD

Vascular Surgery · Cookeville, TNNPI 1982799284

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,180 of the $3,896 with a category attached, or 81.6%. 37 manufacturers reported payments, led by Silk Road Medical, Inc. at 33.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,384 and has fallen 55.2% since, to $620 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $5,973.

$3,896in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 100 payments — averaging $38.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
  • Endologix LLC$548
  • Stryker$253
  • Smith+Nephew$244
  • Penumbra, Inc.$150
  • Avita Medical Americas, LLC$150
  • plus $1K from 31 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$71618%
  • Food & beverage$3,18082%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Silk Road Medical, Inc.10$1,317
Endologix LLC2$548
Stryker4$253
Smith+Nephew16$244
Penumbra, Inc.3$150
Avita Medical Americas, LLC2$150
Medtronic(2 entities)8$127
Boston Scientific5$94
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)6$91
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated3$74
Intuitive Surgical1$64
AbbVie2$62
Davol Inc.3$57
Conmed Corporation2$55
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC2$52
Reprise Biomedical, Inc.2$47
Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited2$45
Olympus America Inc.3$35
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated2$33
Alpha Orthopedic Systems2$32
Innovation Technologies Inc1$32
Merck2$29
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.1$28
Surmodics, Inc.2$28
Merit Medical Systems Inc2$26
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.1$25
Covidien LP1$25
BD1$22
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC1$20
Bolton Medical Inc1$19
Hologic Inc1$19
Lifenet Health1$18
Cagent Vascular Inc1$16
Biocompatibles, Inc.1$15
Angiodynamics, Inc.1$15
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.1$14
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.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.

How this compares

$3,896 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 117 vascular surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$622,971
Medicare patients
308
Services billed
1,299

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate255$1,574
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen39$143
Simvastatin16$104
Atorvastatin Calcium18$98
Tramadol Hcl15$18

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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