David Deboer, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1942265400
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (55.1%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. at 55.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $155,831, 2.7 times the $58,204 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 163 payments — averaging $2747.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$247K
- Microport Orthopedics Inc$198K
- Stryker$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$249
- Johnson & Johnson$204
- Medacta USA, Inc.$180
- plus $571 from 6 others
Across 15 payments — averaging $19,887 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Microport Orthopedics Inc$298K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$246,85355%
- Consulting fees$145,36032%
- Speaking & faculty fees$21,1505%
- Travel & lodging$29,2017%
- Food & beverage$5,2061%
- Gifts$880%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 18 | $246,853 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 116 | $198,475 |
| Stryker | 11 | $1,327 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $249 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $204 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $180 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $132 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $93 |
| Shalby Advanced Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $19 |
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.
- RECLAIM$246,853
- MPO Medial Pivot Knee$196,672
- TRITANIUM$331
- MAKO$170
- GMK Sphere Revision System$150
- CellerateRx$124
- MPO Hip System$123
- OR3O Dual Mobility$120
- POLARSTEM$120
- R3 ACETABULAR$120
- Velys$107
How this compares
$447,858 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tranexamic Acid | 26 | $994 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 11 | $575 |
| Meloxicam | 122 | $345 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 46 | $326 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 28 | $312 |
| Celecoxib | 15 | $239 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 34 | $211 |
| Prednisone | 68 | $200 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 28 | $178 |
| Cephalexin | 35 | $144 |
| Amoxicillin | 58 | $124 |
| Dexamethasone | 24 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Nashville
- Jefferson MorrisonNashville$678K
- Gregory PolkowskiNashville$526K
- Matthew WillisNashville$498K
- Michael ChristieNashville$474K
- Rudolph GlattesNashville$444K
- John MartinNashville$212K
- Nicholas StrasserNashville$184K
- Jeffrey HodrickNashville$173K
- Brian DierckmanNashville$172K
- Stephen EngstromNashville$149K
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.