George Woodman, MD
Surgery · Memphis, TNNPI 1598860272
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (29.5%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 44.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $17,199 and has fallen 73.7% since, to $4,519 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 257 payments — averaging $161.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$19K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$14K
- Medtronic$7K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- AbbVie$153
- Baxter Healthcare$145
- plus $292 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,01512%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,2538%
- Travel & lodging$10,40225%
- Food & beverage$12,24830%
- Education$10,53725%
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 | 72 | $18,519 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 107 | $14,110 |
| Medtronic | 46 | $6,963 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 22 | $1,273 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $153 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $145 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $136 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $94 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $13 |
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$10,728
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$6,227
- DAVINCI XI$6,000
- SEAMGUARD$3,692
- Signia$1,830
- LigaSure$1,276
- Product in Development$600
- GORE SYNECOR Preperitoneal Biomaterial$377
- GORE DUALMESH Biomaterial$351
- SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforcement$347
- Sonicision$242
- VISTASEAL$230
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$146
- Echelon Circular$142
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$142
- LINX Reflux Management System$130
- GORE ENFORM Biomaterial$128
- Signet$124
- ECHELON ENDOPATH Stapler$122
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$118
How this compares
$41,456 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 37 | $42,470 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $136 | $42,47037 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 516 surgery providers in Tennessee.
Other surgery in Memphis
- Douglas HammondMemphis$83K
- Guy VoellerMemphis$42K
- Sara SouleMemphis$16K
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- Eric WallaceCookeville$529K
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Jaime Ponce-PortugalChattanooga$412K
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$362K
- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
- 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.