Jason Harper, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $763 of the $1,182 with a category attached, or 64.6%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. at 45.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $623 and has fallen 80.6% since, to $121 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $1,847.
Across 32 payments — averaging $36.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$534
- Intuitive Surgical$121
- Merck$69
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$52
- Fujifilm New Development USA, Inc.$46
- Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc.$44
- plus $316 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$41835%
- Food & beverage$76365%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $534 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $121 |
| Merck | 3 | $69 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $52 |
| Fujifilm New Development USA, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $38 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $24 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $23 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Northgate Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Microline Surgical Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $11 |
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
$1,182 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 139 | $1,445 |
| Sucralfate | 32 | $790 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 109 | $453 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 24 | $367 |
| Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine | 13 | $226 |
| Famotidine | 41 | $200 |
| Methocarbamol | 13 | $91 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $62 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 23 | $41 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 12 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Paris
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- Eric WallaceCookeville$529K
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Jaime Ponce-PortugalChattanooga$412K
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$362K
- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
- Joseph BroucekNashville$262K
- Linda HanGermantown$252K
- Myron StokesCordova$240K
- Kenneth CutshallJohnson City$210K
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.