Jared Cordon, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Kingsport, TNNPI 1649409251
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,290 of the $1,495 with a category attached, or 86.3%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 34.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $465 and has fallen 52.3% since, to $222 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $4,017.
Across 61 payments — averaging $24.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$522
- DJO, LLC$112
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$100
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$99
- Stryker$83
- Boston Scientific$50
- plus $529 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$20514%
- Food & beverage$1,29086%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $522 |
| DJO, LLC | 6 | $112 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $100 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $99 |
| Stryker | 5 | $83 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $50 |
| Convatec Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $44 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $42 |
| Vertex | 2 | $40 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $36 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Abbott | 2 | $30 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $24 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 3 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $16 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
How this compares
$1,495 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 59 | $527 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 35 | $248 |
| Gabapentin | 24 | $219 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 24 | $87 |
| Meloxicam | 30 | $68 |
| Amoxicillin | 43 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Kingsport
- Bruce MillerKingsport$69K
- Paul BradyKnoxville$20M
- Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
- Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
- Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M
- Alton HunterColumbia$820K
- Jefferson MorrisonNashville$678K
- Michael BeebeMemphis$626K
- Gregory PolkowskiNashville$526K
- Matthew WillisNashville$498K
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.