Jaime Ponce-Portugal, MD
Surgery · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1245280023
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 660 payments — averaging $624.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$140K
- Medtronic$108K
- Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$74K
- Intuitive Surgical$26K
- Olympus Latin America, Inc.$17K
- Johnson & Johnson$14K
- plus $33K from 12 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 148 | $139,559 |
| Medtronic | 231 | $108,197 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 68 | $74,215 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 102 | $26,372 |
| Olympus Latin America, Inc. | 12 | $16,738 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 18 | $13,974 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 14 | $12,939 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 21 | $12,713 |
| Covidien LP | 14 | $4,032 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,529 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1 | $553 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 4 | $516 |
| Novo Nordisk | 10 | $316 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 4 | $228 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $213 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $23 |
How this compares
$412,269 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.
Other surgery in Chattanooga
- Robert MaxwellChattanooga$393K
- Nadine RamppChattanooga$30K
- William CockerhamChattanooga$26K
- John GwinChattanooga$24K
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$2.5M
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- Eric WallaceCookeville$529K
- Guy VoellerMemphis$434K
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
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.