Chad Moss, MD
Surgery · Columbia, TNNPI 1932336393
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $21,000 of the $31,659 with a category attached, or 66.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 90.0% of it on its own, with 28 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $15,890 and has fallen 94.1% since, to $932 in 2025. Among 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.
Across 136 payments — averaging $232.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$28K
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$948
- Davol Inc.$390
- Stryker$383
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$268
- Medtronic$259
- plus $915 from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,93919%
- Food & beverage$4,70615%
- Education$21,00066%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 71 | $28,497 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 7 | $948 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $390 |
| Stryker | 6 | $383 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $268 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $259 |
| Conmed Corporation | 4 | $175 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $158 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 3 | $143 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $37 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $31 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $26 |
| Music City Medical Technologies, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Neuros Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $16 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Bolder Surgical LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $10 |
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$26,930
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- Phasix Mesh$287
- CellerateRx$268
- AIRSEAL$125
- LigaSure$121
How this compares
$31,659 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naloxone Hcl | 35 | $2,292 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 11 | $526 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 136 | $254 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 44 | $76 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 15 | $74 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Columbia
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- 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
- Kenneth CutshallJohnson City$210K
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.