Harold Cates, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Knoxville, TNNPI 1063498392
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (28.4%), royalties or licence payments and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 90.5% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 128 payments — averaging $828.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$96K
- Zimmer Biomet$8K
- Stryker$1K
- Amgen$187
- C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$146
- Medacta USA, Inc.$140
- plus $180 from 6 others
Across 58 payments — averaging $1837.74 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.
- Zimmer Biomet$80K
- Smith+Nephew$27K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$29,99128%
- Consulting fees$30,12528%
- Speaking & faculty fees$29,87528%
- Travel & lodging$12,61512%
- Food & beverage$3,4803%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 80 | $96,033 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $7,939 |
| Stryker | 13 | $1,461 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 14 | $187 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $146 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $75 |
| Orthosensor Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Vertex | 1 | $25 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Journey II$47,583
- Journey II BCS$40,635
- Journey II XR$24,522
- Navio Surgical System$21,263
- VISIONAIRE Cutting Guides$19,785
- Journey Uni$19,125
- Journey II CR$18,374
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$9,578
- LEGION TKS$4,875
- NAVIO$4,461
- VISIONAIRE FastPak$2,125
- Anthem$2,000
- Legion$2,000
- REDAPT Revision Hip System$1,888
- Legion Revision$1,888
- Anthology$1,206
- OR3O$1,059
- POLARSTEM$1,059
- POLAR3$1,059
- VISIONAIRE$1,000
How this compares
$106,086 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 381 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nabumetone | 136 | $1,357 |
| Meloxicam | 214 | $679 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 29 | $412 |
| Methylprednisolone | 41 | $363 |
| Celecoxib | 36 | $277 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 43 | $269 |
| Amoxicillin | 175 | $182 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $114 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 28 | $67 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $65 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Knoxville
- Paul BradyKnoxville$20M
- Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
- Paul NaylorKnoxville$184K
- George HollowayKnoxville$124K
- Adam ShortKnoxville$87K
- Brian EdkinKnoxville$60K
- Austin DavidsonKnoxville$56K
- Benjamin WeisenthalKnoxville$52K
- Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
- Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M
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.