Herbert Hopper, MD
Trauma Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1487955134
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (53.8%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 54.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,821, 6.3 times the $287 reported in 2019.
Across 55 payments — averaging $87.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$3K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$1K
- Intuitive Surgical$350
- Kls-martin L.p.$283
- AbbVie$169
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$64
- plus $236 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$240%
- Travel & lodging$2,60154%
- Food & beverage$2,21146%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 20 | $2,629 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 14 | $1,105 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $350 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $283 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $169 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $64 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $48 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 2 | $24 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $20 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $19 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $16 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Brainscope Company, Inc. | 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.
- AdvantageRib$1,272
- INTEGRA$706
- PRIMATRIX$676
- RibFix Blu$638
- SURGIMEND$552
- TCC-EZ$440
- NEURAGEN$440
- MICROMATRIX$440
- RIBFIX TITAN$250
- Da Vinci Surgical System$245
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$235
- STRATTICE$146
How this compares
$4,835 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $57 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other trauma surgery in Nashville
- Bryan CottonNashville$306K
- Oliver GunterNashville$46K
- Lemuel DentNashville$11K
- Michael SmithNashville$9K
- Stephen GadomskiNashville$7K
- Steven BrooksNashville$5K
- Mayur PatelNashville$5K
- Anne WagnerNashville$4K
- Stephen GondekNashville$3K
- Jill StreamsNashville$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.