Has Colton Norton, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $52,059 in general payments to Colton Norton, MD across 60 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 Colton Norton, 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 Colton Norton, 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.

Colton Norton, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Bartlett, TNNPI 1255893954

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $45,000 of the $52,059 with a category attached, or 86.4%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 48.4% of the total.

$52,059in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 60 payments — averaging $867.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$25K
Arthrex$22K
Stryker$4K
Globus Medical$464
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$416
Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions$111
plus $140 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Grants$45,00086%
Travel & lodging$4,7109%
Food & beverage$2,0094%
Education$3401%

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	7	$25,185
Arthrex	14	$21,833
Stryker	29	$3,910
Globus Medical	2	$464
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	3	$416
Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions	1	$111
Catalyst Orthoscience	1	$76
Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC	1	$25
Linvatec Corporation	1	$22
Boston Scientific	1	$17

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

$52,059 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 381 orthopaedic surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$3,838

Medicare patients

Services billed

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 orthopaedic surgery in Bartlett

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

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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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