Christopher Pokabla, MD
Sports Medicine · Bartlett, TNNPI 1629295209
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $4,869 of the $7,817 with a category attached, or 62.3%. Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions accounts for 63.6% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,822 and has fallen 78.1% since, to $400 in 2025.
Across 41 payments — averaging $190.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions$5K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$409
- Stryker$350
- Encore Medical, LP$254
- Smith+Nephew$184
- plus $209 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,24416%
- Food & beverage$1,70422%
- Education$4,86962%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions | 7 | $4,972 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 10 | $1,439 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $409 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 8 | $350 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 2 | $254 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $184 |
| Amgen | 1 | $118 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 1 | $44 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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
$7,817 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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 | 40 | $187 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 13 | $44 |
| Meloxicam | 18 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Bartlett
- Christopher FergusonBartlett$4K
- Jeffrey DlabachCollierville$504K
- Ian ByramFranklin$252K
- Jw ByrdNashville$248K
- Lucas RichieLebanon$159K
- Zachary PharrColumbia$75K
- Colin LooneyFranklin$68K
- Jonathan BryantBristol$67K
- Lucas TeskeClarksville$57K
- Frederick AzarGermantown$54K
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.