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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,982 in general payments to David Wallace, MD across 26 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 Wallace, 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 Wallace, 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 Wallace, MD

Neurological Surgery · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1487918322

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,982in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $114.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$1K
Medtronic$827
Si-bone, Inc.$175
Baxter Healthcare$166
Boehringer Ingelheim$121
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$118
plus $224 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,77760%
Food & beverage$1,20540%

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
Globus Medical	5	$1,351
Medtronic	6	$827
Si-bone, Inc.	3	$175
Baxter Healthcare	2	$166
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$121
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	1	$118
Stryker	2	$88
Johnson & Johnson	4	$84
Boston Scientific	1	$27
GSK	1	$25

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.

How this compares

$2,982 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 156 neurological surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$169,795

Medicare patients

235

Services billed

516

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
Celecoxib	139	$2,624
Gabapentin	77	$634
Methocarbamol	44	$356
Tizanidine Hcl	30	$341
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	25	$232
Pregabalin	17	$214
Baclofen	13	$178
Meloxicam	52	$122

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Chattanooga

David WilesChattanooga$315K
Mayshan GhiassiChattanooga$59K
Ranjith BabuChattanooga$43K
Kevin FoleyMemphis$167.9M
Arthur UlmNashville$6.1M
Adam ArthurMemphis$6.1M
Maurice SmithMemphis$4.4M
Robert MericleNashville$3.9M
Brian OshaughnessyNashville$2.1M
John BrophyMemphis$2M

See the full list for Tennessee →

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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