Garrick Cason, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Cleveland, TNNPI 1124148358
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $51,514 of the $64,578 with a category attached, or 79.8%. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.9%.
Across 86 payments — averaging $750.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nexxt Spine LLC$12K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$12K
- The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education$12K
- Innovation Technologies Inc$11K
- Precision Spine, Inc.$9K
- Camber Spine Technologies LLC$6K
- plus $3K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,6316%
- Consulting fees$51,51480%
- Travel & lodging$3,2215%
- Food & beverage$5,6829%
- Gifts$5301%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 3 | $12,188 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 10 | $12,065 |
| The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education | 10 | $11,704 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 7 | $10,502 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 10 | $9,259 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 21 | $5,740 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 5 | $1,544 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 6 | $677 |
| Degen Medical, Inc. | 1 | $194 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $160 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $151 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 1 | $133 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $57 |
| Vertex | 1 | $32 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $30 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $19 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Irrisept$10,323
- NEXGEN ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$4,500
- REFORM POCT SYSTEM$4,385
- Reform Ti Pedicle Screw System$4,236
- Spira$3,631
- ARx$1,284
- Medical Devices$522
- Spira-A$400
- Medical Device$309
- ALIF$194
- STREAMLINE* OCT OCCIPITO-CERVICO-THORACIC SYSTEM$160
- Vault C$138
- ProLift$114
- CENTRIC - T RETRACTOR$108
How this compares
$64,578 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 51 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Tennessee.
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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-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 69 | $800 |
| Methocarbamol | 55 | $583 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $121 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Cleveland
- James OsbornCleveland$9K
- Lawrence BabatNashville$928K
- Raymond GardockiNashville$666K
- Samuel SchroerluckeMemphis$451K
- James JolleyChattanooga$231K
- John BurlesonSmyrna$184K
- Michael McNamaraFranklin$150K
- John KlekampFranklin$148K
- Daniel WellsKnoxville$135K
- Colin CrosbyNashville$134K
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.