Has Christopher Cook, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,555 in general payments to Christopher Cook, MD across 47 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Christopher Cook, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Christopher Cook, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Christopher Cook, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Lebanon, TNNPI 1215158175

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.1%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 26.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,440 and has fallen 96.9% since, to $45 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $4,017.

$4,555in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 47 payments — averaging $96.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$1K
Catalyst Orthoscience$1K
Zimmer Biomet$1K
Stryker$631
Highridge Medical LLC$165
Johnson & Johnson$143
plus $294 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,39431%
Food & beverage$2,41753%
Education$74416%

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	10	$1,199
Catalyst Orthoscience	7	$1,095
Zimmer Biomet	8	$1,029
Stryker	10	$631
Highridge Medical LLC	1	$165
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$143
Abbott	1	$81
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$73
Bioventus LLC	2	$46
Dynasplint Systems Inc.	2	$39
DJO, LLC	1	$23
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$21
Merck	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.

MICRORAPTOR$817
Q-FIX$817
Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$817
CSR & R1 Reverse Total Shoulder Systems$646
R1 Reverse Total Shoulder$646
Archer 3D Software$646
Persona$463
Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$217
Catalyst Total CSR$217
Avenir$182
Biomet EBI Bone Healing System$165
ROSA-Knee$119
VARIAX$117
STRATAFIX$109
DERMABOND Portfolio$109
Surgicel Powder$109
ACCOLADE$105

How this compares

$4,555 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 381 orthopaedic surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$339,097

Medicare patients

555

Services billed

8,783

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	289	$1,972
Mupirocin	171	$1,244
Tizanidine Hcl	154	$767
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	99	$674
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	60	$652
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	65	$451
Diclofenac Sodium	21	$341
Cephalexin	66	$320
Doxycycline Hyclate	32	$274
Celecoxib	20	$255
Meloxicam	87	$210
Amoxicillin	155	$208
Tramadol Hcl	93	$204
Tamsulosin Hcl	28	$80
Naproxen	12	$71

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Lebanon

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

See the full list for Tennessee →

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.

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