Eric Wallace, MD
Surgery · Cookeville, TNNPI 1780614529
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $440,750 of the $528,546 with a category attached, or 83.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $204,348 and has fallen 53.3% since, to $95,394 in 2025. Among 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.
Across 594 payments — averaging $889.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$528K
- Davol Inc.$111
- Conmed Corporation$110
- Johnson & Johnson$66
- CSL Behring$52
- Shire North American Group Inc$24
- plus $102 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$22,9504%
- Travel & lodging$44,9559%
- Food & beverage$19,8814%
- Education$440,75083%
- Gifts$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 579 | $528,079 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $111 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $110 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $66 |
| CSL Behring | 3 | $52 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $24 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$521,838
- DA VINCI SP$2,000
- AIRSEAL$110
How this compares
$528,546 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 516 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 57 | $132 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Cookeville
- Charles HuddlestonCookeville$46K
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Jaime Ponce-PortugalChattanooga$412K
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$362K
- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
- Joseph BroucekNashville$262K
- Linda HanGermantown$252K
- Myron StokesCordova$240K
- Kenneth CutshallJohnson City$210K
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.