Jefferson Watson, MD
Surgery · Mt Juliet, TNNPI 1447511290
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (45.5%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 55.9% of the total. Among surgery clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 131 payments — averaging $153.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Asensus Surgical, Inc.$8K
- Cook Medical LLC$215
- Medtronic$170
- Johnson & Johnson$142
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$113
- plus $722 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,50037%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5002%
- Travel & lodging$9,13746%
- Food & beverage$2,92115%
- Gifts$160%
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 | 81 | $11,213 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $7,500 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $215 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $170 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $142 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Stryker | 2 | $111 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $74 |
| Abbott | 3 | $63 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $40 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $33 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $26 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $25 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $15 |
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$9,557
- Senhance Manipulator Arm$5,100
- Senhance Cockpit$5,100
- Senhance Node$5,100
- Senhance Surgical Robotics System$2,400
- DA VINCI SP$500
- Cook Medical Surgery$151
- LigaSure$124
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$113
How this compares
$20,074 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 Mt Juliet
- John BoskindMt Juliet$25K
- 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
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.