Has David Flatt, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $810 in general payments to David Flatt, MD across 31 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 David Flatt, 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 David Flatt, 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.

David Flatt, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Germantown, TNNPI 1972867422

Payments from drug & device makers

$810in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $26.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$469
Abbott$157
Heartflow, Inc.$136
Cleerly, Inc.$48

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$810100%

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
Medtronic	24	$469
Abbott	4	$157
Heartflow, Inc.	2	$136
Cleerly, Inc.	1	$48

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.

FFRct$107

How this compares

$810 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$143,007

Medicare patients

1,143

Services billed

2,465

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
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	257	$252,092
EliquisApixaban	264	$214,825
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol	73	$82,821
JardianceEmpagliflozin	67	$69,127
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab	49	$38,718
XareltoRivaroxaban	38	$36,116
BrilintaTicagrelor	25	$12,379
OzempicSemaglutide	13	$12,162
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab	12	$6,565
Amlodipine-ValsartanAmlodipine Besylate/Valsartan	54	$4,704
Atorvastatin Calcium	305	$2,927
Rosuvastatin Calcium	241	$2,783
Ezetimibe	90	$2,631
Ranolazine ErRanolazine	17	$2,564
Carvedilol	303	$2,503

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other cardiovascular disease in Germantown

Brian LindmanNashville$5.5M
David MetzgerKingsport$4.8M
Christopher EllisNashville$4.1M
Dinesh GuptaNashville$3.2M
Joann LindenfeldNashville$2.2M
Frank McGrewMemphis$2.1M
Rebecca HungNashville$1.8M
Mohsin AlhaddadJackson$1.8M
Robert SmithBrentwood$1.3M
Travis RichardsonNashville$1.3M

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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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