Has Edwin Spencer, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,469,448 in general payments to Edwin Spencer, MD across 248 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 Edwin Spencer, 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 Edwin Spencer, 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.

Edwin Spencer, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Knoxville, TNNPI 1578530275

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,262,745 of the $2,469,448 with a category attached, or 91.6%. Stryker accounts for 68.3% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $451,376 and has fallen 68.1% since, to $143,814 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery 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.

$2,469,448in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 248 payments — averaging $9957.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$1.7M
Encore Medical, LP$748K
Smith+Nephew$30K
Techmah Medical, LLC$3K
Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$216
Arthrex$140
plus $398 from 7 others

$31,970in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $6393.90 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.

Smith+Nephew$32K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$2,262,74592%
Consulting fees$184,4067%
Speaking & faculty fees$5,6000%
Travel & lodging$13,2371%
Food & beverage$3,4600%

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(2 entities)	48	$1,687,096
Encore Medical, LP	166	$748,119
Smith+Nephew	22	$30,427
Techmah Medical, LLC	2	$3,052
Shoulder Innovations, Inc.	1	$216
Arthrex	1	$140
Exactech, Inc.	1	$109
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	1	$65
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$64
Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC	2	$56
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$47
Zimmer Biomet	1	$29
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$26

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.

AEQUALIS PERFORM$1,127,689
DJO SURGICAL$666,623
AEQUALIS$559,407
DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$228,231
DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$31,602
Accu-pass$15,475
Healicoil$12,188
AETOS Shoulder System$12,055
MICRORAPTOR$11,375
Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$11,035
SmartSpace Shoulder$3,000
BIORAPTOR$2,850
FAST-FIX$2,200
SPATIAL FRAME$1,100
DJO Surgical Match Point System$697
Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$663
REAL INTELLIGENCE$529
InSet System$216
EQUINOXE$109

How this compares

$2,469,448 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 381 orthopaedic surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$230,567

Medicare patients

367

Services billed

1,046

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
Diclofenac Sodium	201	$2,094
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	97	$1,317
Celecoxib	42	$1,029
Cephalexin	79	$1,001
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	25	$256
Amoxicillin	51	$98
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	16	$96
Prednisone	18	$84
Ondansetron Hcl	26	$79
Tamsulosin Hcl	28	$50
Meloxicam	11	$12

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Knoxville

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Paul NaylorKnoxville$184K
George HollowayKnoxville$124K
Harold CatesKnoxville$106K
Adam ShortKnoxville$87K
Brian EdkinKnoxville$60K
Austin DavidsonKnoxville$56K
Benjamin WeisenthalKnoxville$52K
Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M

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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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