Has Earl Jones received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $58,595 in general payments to Earl Jones across 82 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 Earl Jones 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 Earl Jones 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.

Earl Jones

Neurological Surgery · Memphis, TNNPI 1295263788

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $50,000 of the $58,595 with a category attached, or 85.3%. Medtronic accounts for 89.7% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $52,423, more than ten times the $335 reported in 2019.

$58,595in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 82 payments — averaging $714.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$53K
Penumbra, Inc.$2K
Stryker$996
Microvention, Inc.$602
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$597
Balt USA, LLC$257
plus $1K from 16 others

What the payments were for

Grants$50,00085%
Travel & lodging$3,6156%
Food & beverage$4,3067%
Education$6741%

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
Medtronic	36	$52,574
Penumbra, Inc.	10	$2,168
Stryker	7	$996
Microvention, Inc.	1	$602
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	5	$597
Balt USA, LLC	1	$257
Johnson & Johnson	4	$238
Imperative Care, Inc	1	$173
4web, Inc.	1	$144
Spinal Elements, Inc.	1	$138
Globus Medical	1	$122
Olympus America Inc.	2	$113
Aesculap, Inc.	2	$107
CSL Behring	1	$102
Maduro Medical, Inc.	1	$94
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	1	$35
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$31
Baxter Healthcare	1	$24
UCB, Inc.	1	$24
Monteris Medical Corporation	1	$22
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	1	$20
Hyperfine Operations, Inc.	1	$14

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

$58,595 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 156 neurological surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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