Elizabeth Perkins
Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck · Nashville, TNNPI 1497166771
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,354 of the $9,435 with a category attached, or 67.3%. Med-el Corporation accounts for 66.2% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,334 and has fallen 97.2% since, to $147 in 2025.
Across 43 payments — averaging $219.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Med-el Corporation$6K
- Stryker$2K
- Cochlear Americas$824
- Advanced Bionics, LLC$560
- Medtronic$198
Across 1 payment — averaging $8437.25 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.
- Cochlear Americas$8K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4004%
- Travel & lodging$6,35467%
- Food & beverage$2,68228%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Med-el Corporation | 20 | $6,245 |
| Stryker | 13 | $1,609 |
| Cochlear Americas | 6 | $824 |
| Advanced Bionics, LLC | 3 | $560 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $198 |
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
Too few plastic surgery within the head & neck providers in Tennesseeto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth | 31 | $3,590 |
| Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate | 16 | $748 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 15 | $217 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 15 | $166 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 16 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery within the head & neck in Nashville
- Eben RosenthalNashville$23K
- James BekenyNashville$10K
- Marc FeeleyNashville$3K
- Jason HallKnoxville$68K
- James ShireChattanooga$33K
- Howard HammerDickson$7K
- Richard DepersioPowell$3K
- Samuel SmithMemphis$2K
- Charles SewallOak Ridge$2K
- Jacqueline BoothOak Ridge$792
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.