David McCord
Addiction Medicine · Franklin, TNNPI 1124065420
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,421 of the $14,417 with a category attached, or 79.2%. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 34.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,426 and has fallen 70.4% since, to $1,311 in 2023. Among addiction medicine 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 131 payments — averaging $110.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$4K
- Zimvie Inc.$704
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$631
- Zimmer Biomet$599
- Si-bone, Inc.$476
- plus $3K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9276%
- Travel & lodging$2,06914%
- Food & beverage$11,42179%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 56 | $5,033 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 13 | $4,189 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 4 | $704 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 5 | $631 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $599 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $476 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 4 | $369 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $272 |
| Cutting Edge Spine, LLC | 1 | $260 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 3 | $254 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $232 |
| Getset Surgical Inc | 1 | $227 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 11 | $205 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $188 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $153 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Abbott | 2 | $114 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $101 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 2 | $59 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $50 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Wound Management Technologies, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Amgen | 1 | $12 |
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.
- ALLOGRAFT$2,339
- COFLEX INTERLAMINAR TECHNOLOGY, 10MM$927
- SIMMETRY IMPLANT, 12.5MM X 50MM$927
- CERVALIGN ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$927
- STREAMLINE TL SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM$927
- Biomet SpinalPak Non-invasive Spine Fusion Stimulator System$704
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$635
- Biomet SpinalPak$564
- Intracept$543
- Medical Device$538
- GoPLF! Posterior Lateral Fusion System$454
- YUKON$341
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$324
- GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$322
- STREAMLINE* OCT OCCIPITO-CERVICO-THORACIC SYSTEM$321
- iFuse Implant$288
- MOJAVE$281
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$278
- VITOSS$278
- OZARK CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$263
How this compares
$14,417 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 76 addiction medicine providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 73 | $10,214 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other addiction medicine in Franklin
- Lucas WilmoreFranklin$114
- John Rocco RodneyMemphis$251K
- Marie-Louise MengNashville$19K
- Kimberly CollinsAntioch$6K
- Joshua HareChattanooga$5K
- Karen AveryHixson$4K
- Winston GrinerNashville$4K
- Drew BlackstockBartlett$4K
- Richard SoperNashville$2K
- Steve WeaverJackson$2K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.