Christopher Bowlin, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Knoxville, TNNPI 1922311547
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 184 payments — averaging $27.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Trimed, Inc.$902
- Convatec Inc.$411
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$288
- Abbott$231
- Paragon 28, Inc.$147
- plus $1K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3507%
- Food & beverage$4,62393%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 111 | $1,916 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 4 | $902 |
| Convatec Inc. | 7 | $411 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $288 |
| Abbott | 13 | $231 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $109 |
| Medtronic(4 entities) | 7 | $108 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $92 |
| Biowound Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $87 |
| Amgen | 5 | $75 |
| Stryker | 1 | $72 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $51 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| GSK | 2 | $38 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $30 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $24 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Royal Biologics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $17 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- TAR$147
- InnovaMatrix AC$125
How this compares
$4,973 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 145 foot & ankle 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 | 43 | $576 |
| Cephalexin | 58 | $318 |
| Gabapentin | 45 | $311 |
| Meloxicam | 39 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Knoxville
- Tracy PesutKnoxville$16K
- Aneta SokolowskaKnoxville$11K
- Derrick RolandKnoxville$10K
- Michael TompkinsKnoxville$8K
- Brady AndersonKnoxville$6K
- Frank OgnibeneMemphis$353K
- Garnett MurphyGermantown$225K
- Sebastien DemoinyMorristown$210K
- Robert ThompsonMurfreesboro$205K
- Bhekumuzi KhumaloUnion City$201K
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.