Christian Anderson, MD
Sports Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1255535746
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $18,318 of the $23,755 with a category attached, or 77.1%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Linvatec Corporation at 45.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $11,549 and has fallen 98.1% since, to $219 in 2025.
Across 50 payments — averaging $475.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Linvatec Corporation$11K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$8K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$1K
- Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$379
- Stryker$312
- plus $439 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$18,31877%
- Travel & lodging$2,51511%
- Food & beverage$1,8528%
- Education$1,0705%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Linvatec Corporation | 15 | $10,702 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 2 | $8,483 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 13 | $2,351 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 2 | $1,091 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 2 | $379 |
| Stryker | 6 | $312 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $183 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $118 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $76 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$23,755 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 147 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 23 | $141 |
| Meloxicam | 48 | $78 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 12 | $53 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 15 | $37 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Nashville
- Jw ByrdNashville$248K
- Christopher JonesNashville$35K
- Calvin DyerNashville$11K
- Joseph SchafferNashville$10K
- Paul CrookNashville$7K
- Eric BowmanNashville$6K
- Jeffrey DlabachCollierville$504K
- Ian ByramFranklin$252K
- Lucas RichieLebanon$159K
- Zachary PharrColumbia$75K
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.