Bryan Borgfeld, MD
Surgery · Jackson, TNNPI 1407948904
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,670 of the $2,752 with a category attached, or 60.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 62.0% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,571 and has fallen 95.1% since, to $77 in 2025.
Across 65 payments — averaging $42.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- AbbVie$539
- TELA Bio, Inc.$112
- Medtronic$93
- Conmed Corporation$42
- Merck$39
- plus $222 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$703%
- Food & beverage$1,67061%
- Education$1,01337%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 14 | $1,706 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 24 | $539 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 9 | $112 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $93 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $42 |
| Merck | 3 | $39 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $36 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $29 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| Bolder Surgical LLC | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,295
How this compares
$2,752 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 516 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 19 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Jackson
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- Garrison SmithJackson$19K
- Eric WallaceCookeville$529K
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Jaime Ponce-PortugalChattanooga$412K
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$362K
- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
- Joseph BroucekNashville$262K
- Linda HanGermantown$252K
- Myron StokesCordova$240K
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.