Elizabeth Friedmann
Orthopaedic Surgery · Germantown, TNNPI 1427477165
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 205 payments — averaging $154.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$19K
- Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC$8K
- Stryker$2K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$1K
- Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions$988
- Native Surgical, LLC$388
- plus $552 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$10,00032%
- Travel & lodging$7,46424%
- Food & beverage$7,17523%
- Education$6,98822%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 70 | $18,591 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 72 | $7,711 |
| Stryker | 33 | $1,987 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 4 | $1,410 |
| Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions | 1 | $988 |
| Native Surgical, LLC | 13 | $388 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 5 | $231 |
| Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC | 1 | $169 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $96 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $39 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
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
$31,627 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 381 orthopaedic surgery 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 15 | $125 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 11 | $34 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Germantown
- Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.9M
- Chad CampionGermantown$311K
- Carson RiderGermantown$136K
- Thomas RussellGermantown$131K
- Kirk ThompsonGermantown$129K
- Christopher CosgroveGermantown$109K
- Jan SzatkowskiGermantown$103K
- Paul BradyKnoxville$20.1M
- Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.5M
- Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
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.