Darren Hunt, MD
Surgery · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1316153604
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (47.6%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 71.2% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,303 and has fallen 94.1% since, to $253 in 2025.
Across 45 payments — averaging $140.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Smith+Nephew$338
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$311
- TELA Bio, Inc.$194
- Innovation Technologies Inc$150
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$124
- plus $696 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$88514%
- Food & beverage$2,41738%
- Education$3,00048%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 13 | $4,490 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $338 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $311 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $194 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $124 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $118 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $102 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $102 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $80 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Merck | 1 | $30 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,075
- INTEGRA$696
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$276
- Irrisept$150
- PRIMATRIX$144
- OMNIGRAFT$133
- SURGIMEND$133
- Iovera$124
- GRAFIX PL$120
- Grafix XC$120
- Stravix$120
- STRAVIX PL$120
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$102
- AIRSEAL$102
How this compares
$6,302 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 516 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 38 | $181 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 42 | $176 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 12 | $85 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $61 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Chattanooga
- Jaime Ponce-PortugalChattanooga$412K
- Nadine RamppChattanooga$30K
- John GwinChattanooga$24K
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- Eric WallaceCookeville$529K
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$362K
- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
- Joseph BroucekNashville$262K
- Linda HanGermantown$252K
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.