Jake Sides
Surgery · Bristol, TNNPI 1003279662
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 50 payments — averaging $65.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Conmed Corporation$440
- Covidien LP$226
- Edwards Lifesciences$133
- AstraZeneca$59
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$44
- plus $276 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,19836%
- Food & beverage$2,09764%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 22 | $2,118 |
| Conmed Corporation | 6 | $440 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $226 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $133 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 4 | $59 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $36 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $36 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $31 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $18 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $17 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Clinical Technology, 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,068
- ProGrip$226
- AIRSEAL$214
How this compares
$3,295 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 65 | $3,936 |
| Sucralfate | 17 | $188 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 14 | $86 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 36 | $76 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Bristol
- Paige FurrowBristol$39K
- Benjamin ScharfsteinBristol$30K
- John VanceBristol$20K
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$2.5M
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- Eric WallaceCookeville$529K
- Guy VoellerMemphis$434K
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Jaime Ponce-PortugalChattanooga$412K
- Robert MaxwellChattanooga$393K
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.