Jeffery Tinker, PA
Physician Assistant · Nashville, TNNPI 1871787184
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 68 payments — averaging $38.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bioventus LLC$345
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$322
- Johnson & Johnson$305
- Stryker$279
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$225
- DJO, LLC$223
- plus $923 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,621100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $345 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 22 | $322 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $305 |
| Stryker | 2 | $279 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $225 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $223 |
| Curonix LLC | 5 | $205 |
| Music City Medical Technologies, LLC | 2 | $181 |
| Vertex | 3 | $73 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $70 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $64 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $50 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $41 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $18 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $16 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 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.
- Durolane$302
- FMS Duo$287
- CMF$276
- MAKOPLASTY$162
- HEALIX KNOTLESS PEEK$149
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$135
- MAKO$117
- Physio-Stim$103
How this compares
$2,621 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,404 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 14 | $1,554 |
| Celecoxib | 108 | $1,546 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 36 | $381 |
| Meloxicam | 58 | $270 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $221 |
| Cephalexin | 31 | $125 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 12 | $77 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $28 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $18 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $13 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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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.