Jeremy Bruce, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1073711677
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 207 payments — averaging $97.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$5K
- Synthes GmbH$5K
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$3K
- Innovation Technologies Inc$1K
- Bioventus LLC$1K
- Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC$1K
- plus $3K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,1005%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,00015%
- Travel & lodging$5,26526%
- Food & beverage$8,37042%
- Education$2,40012%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 41 | $5,093 |
| Synthes GmbH | 8 | $5,014 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 8 | $3,148 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 10 | $1,221 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $1,117 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 19 | $1,106 |
| Arthrex | 13 | $975 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 24 | $352 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 7 | $339 |
| Amgen | 21 | $239 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 10 | $206 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $155 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 2 | $134 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $96 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $84 |
| DJO, LLC | 3 | $80 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Ortho Development Corporation | 1 | $75 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $69 |
| Prosidyan, Inc | 1 | $53 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $44 |
| Vericel Corporation | 3 | $40 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $34 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $27 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Moximed, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Abbott | 1 | $17 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| AstraZeneca | 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.
- ACUFEX Meniscal Root Repair$2,294
- Healicoil$1,985
- Q-FIX$1,861
- CAP-FIX$1,736
- NOVOSTITCH$1,736
- Irrisept$1,040
- Journey II$470
- OR3O$418
- HIP7$418
- POLARSTEM$418
- VISIONAIRE$418
- LEGION TKS$418
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$380
- BioBrace 23mm$161
- HALL POWER$161
- ALLOGRAFT TISSUE$161
- SYNERGY$148
- NAVIO$136
- PICO$125
- MULTIFIX$125
How this compares
$20,135 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 | 74 | $730 |
| Methocarbamol | 49 | $446 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 91 | $310 |
| Mupirocin | 34 | $266 |
| Meloxicam | 89 | $233 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $205 |
| Celecoxib | 11 | $188 |
| Amoxicillin | 27 | $72 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $57 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Chattanooga
- Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.5M
- Scott SteinmannChattanooga$209K
- Matthew BernardChattanooga$136K
- Dirk KinerChattanooga$109K
- Warren GardnerChattanooga$80K
- Paul BradyKnoxville$20.1M
- Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
- Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.9M
- Tyler BrolinCollierville$1M
- Jefferson MorrisonNashville$910K
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.