Haile Mezghebe, MD
Trauma Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1558464503
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $557 of the $908 with a category attached, or 61.3%. Stryker accounts for 63.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $589 and has fallen 95.1% since, to $29 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for trauma surgery clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $1,198.
Across 21 payments — averaging $43.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$573
- CSL Behring$69
- AstraZeneca$39
- Johnson & Johnson$33
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$29
- Acell, Inc.$29
- plus $135 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$55761%
- Food & beverage$33136%
- Education$202%
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 | $573 |
| CSL Behring | 4 | $69 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $39 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $33 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $29 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $16 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Teleflex LLC | 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.
How this compares
$908 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 38 trauma 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.
Other trauma surgery in Nashville
- Bryan CottonNashville$306K
- Oliver GunterNashville$46K
- Lemuel DentNashville$11K
- Michael SmithNashville$9K
- Stephen GadomskiNashville$7K
- Steven BrooksNashville$5K
- Herbert HopperNashville$5K
- Mayur PatelNashville$5K
- Anne WagnerNashville$4K
- Stephen GondekNashville$3K
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.