Christopher Bell, MD
Surgery · Crossville, TNNPI 1669424107
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 45 payments — averaging $61.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Steris Corporation$2K
- Smith+Nephew$333
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$137
- Haemonetics Corporation$105
- Nevro Corp.$100
- Organogenesis Inc.$58
- plus $340 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,63560%
- Food & beverage$1,11240%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Steris Corporation | 3 | $1,674 |
| Smith+Nephew | 19 | $333 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $105 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $100 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Medline Industries LP | 2 | $43 |
| OVIK Health, LLC | 1 | $43 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $37 |
| Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Reapplix Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $30 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $22 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $19 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $14 |
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.
- HARMONY$1,635
- Restrata Wound Matrix$137
- TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$105
How this compares
$2,747 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.
Other surgery in Crossville
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$2.5M
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- Eric WallaceCookeville$529K
- Guy VoellerMemphis$434K
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Jaime Ponce-PortugalChattanooga$412K
- Robert MaxwellChattanooga$393K
- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
- Richard PierceNashville$276K
- Joseph BroucekNashville$262K
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.