James Yu, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1407848641
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $678 of the $1,109 with a category attached, or 61.1%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alpha Orthopedic Systems at 38.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $596 and has fallen 77.7% since, to $133 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for foot and ankle surgery clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $4,185.
Across 18 payments — averaging $61.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$431
- Stryker$412
- Terumo Medical Corporation$118
- Smith+Nephew$98
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$17
- Music City Medical Technologies, LLC$16
- plus $16 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$43139%
- Food & beverage$67861%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 1 | $431 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 10 | $412 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $118 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $98 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Music City Medical Technologies, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
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.
- GlideWire$118
How this compares
$1,109 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 145 foot and ankle 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 | 79 | $727 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 12 | $152 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 17 | $130 |
| Meloxicam | 12 | $38 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Nashville
- William CornNashville$52K
- Sheela ChockalingamNashville$15K
- Christopher DreikornNashville$13K
- Andrew PierreNashville$10K
- Bethany GallagherNashville$8K
- Jeffrey WillersNashville$7K
- Reva BorkNashville$7K
- Timothy BushNashville$7K
- Nicholas FussellNashville$6K
- Jeffrey HerringNashville$5K
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.