Has Garnett Murphy, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $130,401 in general payments to Garnett Murphy, MD across 151 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Garnett Murphy, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Garnett Murphy, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Garnett Murphy, MD

Foot and Ankle Surgery · Germantown, TNNPI 1952398646

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (49.1%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 87.2% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $27,471 and has fallen 56.3% since, to $11,995 in 2025. Among foot and ankle 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.

$130,401in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 151 payments — averaging $863.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$114K
Arthrex$12K
Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions$4K
Amgen$221
Johnson & Johnson$102
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$102
plus $318 from 5 others

$96,364in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $2834.25 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.

Stryker$93K
Ferring International Pharmascience Center US$3K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$64,03449%
Consulting fees$40,86031%
Speaking & faculty fees$12,96410%
Travel & lodging$2,9302%
Food & beverage$4,0353%
Education$5,5774%

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
Stryker(2 entities)	80	$113,664
Arthrex	45	$11,547
Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions	14	$4,448
Amgen	2	$221
Johnson & Johnson	1	$102
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	1	$102
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	3	$95
Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC	1	$88
DJO, LLC	2	$70
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$55
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$9

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.

ORTHOLOC 3DI$69,222
INFINITY$21,758
MICA$9,630
ORTHOLOC 3DI CROSSCHECK$5,130
PHALINX$5,130
ORTHOLOC$4,620
PROPHECY$3,990
CARTIVA SYNTHETIC CARTILAGE IMPLANT$3,705
INBONE$3,405
FUSEFORCE$2,565
ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$1,995
GRAVITY$1,995
AXSOS$1,710
HOFFMANN$1,710
T2$1,710
INVISION$1,425
PROstep$685
R&D Foot and Ankle$285
EASYFUSE$279
DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS FOOT & ANKLE DYNANITE STAPLES$222

How this compares

$130,401 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 145 foot and ankle surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$452,678

Medicare patients

1,481

Services billed

9,222

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
Fluconazole	11	$1,646
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	117	$1,293
Ibuprofen	147	$1,210
Ondansetron Hcl	134	$694
Cephalexin	161	$417
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	25	$320
Meloxicam	78	$219
Methylprednisolone	26	$142
Colchicine	11	$110
Gabapentin	20	$93

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot and ankle surgery in Germantown

David RichardsonGermantown$61K
Paul SchroederGermantown$17K
Benjamin GrearGermantown$5K
Sebastien DemoinyMorristown$210K
Robert ThompsonMurfreesboro$205K
Bhekumuzi KhumaloUnion City$201K
Walter ButlerMemphis$191K
Chad WebsterCordova$185K
Christian SmithCordova$153K
Frank OgnibeneMemphis$148K

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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.

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