David Metzger, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Kingsport, TNNPI 1568490464
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,135 payments — averaging $4222.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Inspiremd Ltd$2.2M
- Contego Medical, Inc$845K
- Abbott$499K
- Penumbra, Inc.$262K
- Endologix LLC$255K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$226K
- plus $492K from 38 others
Across 74 payments — averaging $4686.38 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.
- Inspiremd Ltd$163K
- Contego Medical, Inc$118K
- Microvention, Inc.$46K
- Philips North America LLC$12K
- Cook Research Incorporated$5K
- Mercator Medsystems, Inc.$4K
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.
How this compares
$4,792,647 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 429 cardiovascular disease 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 cardiovascular disease in Kingsport
- Gaurav RanaKingsport$78K
- Brian LindmanNashville$5.5M
- 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
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.