Christopher Bowman, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Sweetwater, TNNPI 1922040773
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 61 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $373 and has fallen 76.2% since, to $89 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $4,017.
Across 61 payments — averaging $21.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$277
- Novo Nordisk$217
- Stryker$196
- Zealand Pharma US, Inc.$161
- Lilly USA, LLC$102
- Valeritas, Inc.$75
- plus $294 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,322100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 11 | $277 |
| Novo Nordisk | 11 | $217 |
| Stryker | 3 | $196 |
| Zealand Pharma US, Inc. | 9 | $161 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $102 |
| Valeritas, Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $39 |
| Amgen | 2 | $31 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $26 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $23 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $14 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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.
- TRIATHLON$148
How this compares
$1,322 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 381 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 96 | $388 |
| Celecoxib | 15 | $148 |
| Meloxicam | 75 | $144 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 16 | $46 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 15 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Sweetwater
- Paul BradyKnoxville$20M
- Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
- Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
- Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M
- Alton HunterColumbia$820K
- Jefferson MorrisonNashville$678K
- Michael BeebeMemphis$626K
- Gregory PolkowskiNashville$526K
- Matthew WillisNashville$498K
- Michael ChristieNashville$474K
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.