Jesse Doty, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1851513931
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (44.4%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 48 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 36.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $578,658, 2.3 times the $251,249 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 1,147 payments — averaging $1966.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$830K
- Stryker$601K
- Vilex LLC$264K
- Globus Medical$193K
- International Life Sciences$152K
- Forma Medical$91K
- plus $124K from 42 others
Across 25 payments — averaging $10,016 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Arthrex$171K
- Stryker$79K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,001,03944%
- Consulting fees$729,47232%
- Speaking & faculty fees$333,99815%
- Travel & lodging$168,8217%
- Food & beverage$17,4881%
- Education$4,6020%
- Gifts$860%
- Entertainment$350%
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.
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.
- ARTHREX$2,115,374
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$273,165
- FLEXBAND$184,932
- HINTERMANN$139,197
- AEQUALIS$90,401
- ASNIS$83,722
- OptimalMTP$52,682
- Syndesmosis Fixation$37,303
- INBONE$34,004
- OptimalAkin$32,709
- INFINITY$30,841
- CAPTIVATE$27,043
- Next Gen Ankle$26,882
- TACTIX$25,488
- AXSOS$24,950
- HOFFMANN$24,950
- MagnetOs$24,852
- EXTERNAL FIXATION$19,264
- Anthem$17,813
- Ankle Fracture System$16,530
How this compares
$2,255,542 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 221 | $5,193 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 15 | $138 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $45 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Chattanooga
- Scott SteinmannChattanooga$209K
- Matthew BernardChattanooga$136K
- Dirk KinerChattanooga$109K
- Warren GardnerChattanooga$80K
- Paul BradyKnoxville$20M
- Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
- Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M
- Alton HunterColumbia$820K
- Jefferson MorrisonNashville$678K
- Michael BeebeMemphis$626K
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.