Brian Tierney, MD
Plastic Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1265440416
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $36,563 of the $51,925 with a category attached, or 70.4%. Elutia, Inc. accounts for 74.9% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $33,890 and has fallen 88.9% since, to $3,748 in 2025. Among plastic surgery clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 466 payments — averaging $111.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Elutia, Inc.$39K
- AbbVie$4K
- RTI Surgical, Inc$4K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$1K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$909
- Sientra, Inc.$887
- plus $2K from 17 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $63,650 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.
- Elutia, Inc.$127K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$36,56370%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0034%
- Food & beverage$13,03425%
- Other$3261%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elutia, Inc. | 12 | $38,908 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 270 | $4,345 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 34 | $3,808 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 18 | $1,167 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 46 | $909 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 23 | $887 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 26 | $749 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 8 | $306 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 3 | $251 |
| Axogen | 6 | $137 |
| Stryker | 3 | $80 |
| Vertex | 2 | $58 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $39 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $35 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $26 |
| Apyx Medical Corporation | 3 | $22 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $20 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $19 |
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.
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$2,382
- ECM Patch,Pouch$2,321
- SimpliDerm ,Integuply$2,025
- NATRELLE$797
- ALLOGRAFT$544
- DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$444
- INTEGRA$372
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$334
- SURGIMEND$325
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$273
- OMNIGRAFT$186
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$186
- Irrisept$183
- Motiva Implant Matrix$170
- SimpliDerm$149
- Ovitex$144
How this compares
$51,925 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 89 plastic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 103 | $475 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 62 | $231 |
| Mupirocin | 13 | $77 |
| Fluconazole | 15 | $47 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Nashville
- George MaxwellNashville$48.3M
- Jacob UngerNashville$153K
- James WendelNashville$36K
- Ronald GilmerNashville$36K
- Megan VucovichNashville$29K
- Mary GingrassNashville$15K
- Melinda HawsNashville$10K
- Michael GolinkoNashville$6K
- Donald GriffinNashville$5K
- Alexander NeinNashville$5K
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.