Has Dustin Hamilton, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $29,167 in general payments to Dustin Hamilton, MD across 196 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 Dustin Hamilton, 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 Dustin Hamilton, 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.

Dustin Hamilton, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Knoxville, TNNPI 1659715688

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (36.8%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 49.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,764 and has fallen 81.2% since, to $2,024 in 2025.

$29,167in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 196 payments — averaging $148.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$14K
Stryker$11K
Arthrex$2K
Alpha Orthopedic Systems$1K
Osteoremedies, LLC$240
Medtronic$178
plus $547 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$10,74837%
Food & beverage$9,71933%
Education$8,70030%

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
Smith+Nephew	47	$14,441
Stryker	104	$11,096
Arthrex	3	$1,548
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	13	$1,117
Osteoremedies, LLC	1	$240
Medtronic	1	$178
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	5	$131
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	8	$116
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$68
Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC	1	$58
Radius Health, Inc.	3	$50
Amgen	3	$35
Conformis, Inc.	1	$26
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$25
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$20
Vertex	1	$19

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

$29,167 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 27 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$273,356

Medicare patients

502

Services billed

3,561

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	96	$2,998
Diclofenac Sodium	26	$709
Meloxicam	73	$468
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	63	$433
Methylprednisolone	58	$377
Pregabalin	22	$283
Oxycodone Hcl	40	$224
Cephalexin	42	$201
Amoxicillin	141	$199
Tramadol Hcl	40	$188
Pantoprazole Sodium	19	$57
Clindamycin Hcl	38	$37

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Knoxville

Conrad IvieKnoxville$609K
Justin KennonKnoxville$43K
Andrew PooleKnoxville$30K
Paul YauKnoxville$14K
Mark TurnerKnoxville$1K
Cory CalendineFranklin$2.5M
William KurtzBrentwood$774K
Brian PerkinsonFranklin$229K
Andrew ShinarNashville$151K
William CarpenterNashville$146K

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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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