Frances Cross, MD
Surgery · Oak Ridge, TNNPI 1609852680
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 55 payments — averaging $28.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$765
- Smith+Nephew$313
- Organogenesis Inc.$148
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$107
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$84
- Bsn Medical Inc$39
- plus $91 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$74348%
- Food & beverage$80552%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 5 | $765 |
| Smith+Nephew | 22 | $313 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 10 | $148 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $107 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 4 | $84 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $39 |
| Venclose Inc. | 2 | $22 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $11 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $10 |
How this compares
$1,547 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 41 | $105 |
| Azithromycin | 16 | $79 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $72 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Oak Ridge
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$2.5M
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- Eric WallaceCookeville$529K
- Guy VoellerMemphis$434K
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Jaime Ponce-PortugalChattanooga$412K
- Robert MaxwellChattanooga$393K
- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
- Richard PierceNashville$276K
- Joseph BroucekNashville$262K
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.