David Gwaltney, MD
Surgery · Bristol, TNNPI 1538264064
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 83 payments — averaging $20.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Polymedics Innovations Inc.$492
- Urgo Medical North America, LLC$171
- Organogenesis Inc.$98
- Convatec Inc.$96
- AstraZeneca$83
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$69
- plus $706 from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,70399%
- Gifts$131%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Polymedics Innovations Inc. | 13 | $492 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 11 | $171 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 5 | $98 |
| Convatec Inc. | 5 | $96 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 6 | $83 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $63 |
| Medline Industries LP | 3 | $63 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $60 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $39 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $19 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Stryker | 1 | $14 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $13 |
| Reddress USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $13 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $12 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,716 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th 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.
Other surgery in Bristol
- Paige FurrowBristol$39K
- Benjamin ScharfsteinBristol$30K
- John VanceBristol$20K
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$2.5M
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- Eric WallaceCookeville$529K
- Guy VoellerMemphis$434K
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Jaime Ponce-PortugalChattanooga$412K
- Robert MaxwellChattanooga$393K
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.