Eric Bowman, MD
Sports Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1801153622
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (56.0%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alpha Orthopedic Systems accounts for 64.4% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 32 payments — averaging $199.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$4K
- Arthrex$1K
- Music City Medical Technologies, LLC$715
- Ossur Americas, Inc.$164
- Bone Support Inc.$124
- Zimmer Biomet$100
- plus $114 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,39822%
- Food & beverage$1,41422%
- Education$3,57956%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 12 | $4,118 |
| Arthrex | 7 | $1,055 |
| Music City Medical Technologies, LLC | 5 | $715 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 2 | $164 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $100 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $33 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $25 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Miami J$137
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$124
- CERAMENT G$124
How this compares
$6,391 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 147 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 26 | $965 |
| Methylprednisolone | 44 | $300 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 35 | $227 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 16 | $204 |
| Meloxicam | 62 | $91 |
| Gabapentin | 21 | $78 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $67 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Nashville
- Jw ByrdNashville$248K
- Christopher JonesNashville$35K
- Christian AndersonNashville$24K
- Calvin DyerNashville$11K
- Joseph SchafferNashville$10K
- Paul CrookNashville$7K
- Jeffrey DlabachCollierville$504K
- Ian ByramFranklin$252K
- Lucas RichieLebanon$159K
- Zachary PharrColumbia$75K
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.