Joel Locke
Urology · Franklin, TNNPI 1750382727
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 122 payments — averaging $37.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$451
- AbbVie$273
- Myovant Sciences Inc.$130
- Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$126
- Boston Scientific$121
- plus $987 from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$69515%
- Travel & lodging$61113%
- Food & beverage$2,68258%
- Education$60013%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 12 | $2,499 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 21 | $451 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 20 | $273 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 7 | $130 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 5 | $126 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $121 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $119 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $113 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 5 | $69 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $65 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 2 | $46 |
| Abbott | 2 | $45 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 2 | $32 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $31 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Bayer | 2 | $27 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Aytu Biopharma, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Axogen | 1 | $18 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $17 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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$2,250
- Pipeline$113
How this compares
$4,588 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 276 urology providers in Tennessee.
Other urology in Franklin
- Gautam JayramNashville$16.1M
- David MorrisHendersonville$7.3M
- David PensonNashville$4.4M
- L KnollNashville$2.1M
- David GubinMemphis$1M
- Paul EberGermantown$795K
- Roger DmochowskiNashville$792K
- Melissa KaufmanNashville$617K
- Amy LuckenbaughNashville$547K
- Adam StewartGermantown$487K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.