Has John Burleson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $187,262 in general payments to John Burleson, MD across 271 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Burleson, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Burleson, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Burleson, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Smyrna, TNNPI 1255779948

Payments from drug & device makers

$187,262in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 271 payments — averaging $691.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.$56K
Degen Medical, Inc.$38K
Silony Medical Corp.$21K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$15K
Restor3d, Inc.$11K
CTL Medical Corporation$8K
plus $38K from 39 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$2,4001%
Consulting fees$123,23267%
Speaking & faculty fees$3,9752%
Grants$8,0004%
Travel & lodging$30,91317%
Food & beverage$15,3128%
Education$3600%
Entertainment$190%

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
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.	14	$56,061
Degen Medical, Inc.	27	$38,173
Silony Medical Corp.	16	$20,663
Alphatec Spine, Inc	22	$14,764
Restor3d, Inc.	8	$11,272
CTL Medical Corporation	12	$8,229
Globus Medical(2 entities)	4	$8,095
Theragen, Inc.	6	$6,426
Cerapedics Inc.	14	$3,614
Intrinsic Therapeutics	16	$3,471
Medacta USA, Inc.	21	$3,156
Kalitec Direct LLC	4	$2,364
Si-bone, Inc.	8	$2,034
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	11	$1,430
Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus	5	$1,312
Centinel Spine, LLC	4	$1,223
Spineart USA Inc	2	$1,126
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	14	$508
Medtronic(2 entities)	5	$500
Amgen	17	$450
Stryker	5	$360
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	5	$277
Implanet America, Inc.	1	$214
Augmedics Inc.	3	$200
4web, Inc.	2	$176
Zimvie Inc.	1	$174
Spineology Inc.	2	$167
Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC	1	$142
Nexxt Spine LLC	1	$91
Biogennix, LLC	1	$87
Johnson & Johnson	2	$68
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$62
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	1	$49
DJO, LLC	2	$49
Spinal Elements, Inc.	1	$33
Life Spine, Inc.	1	$32
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$32
Smith+Nephew	1	$26
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC	1	$25
Radius Health, Inc.	2	$25
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$24
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$22
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$20
Avanos Medical	1	$19
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$14

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.

XR$13,800
Other - Miscellaneous$13,563
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$9,667
Verticale$9,408
BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$6,476
ActaStim-S$6,368
MYSPINE$2,845
iFuse Implant$1,885
Verticale WINX$1,800
Spinal$1,500
PRODISC C$1,125
EXPEDIUM$1,027
Xvision$743
FlareHawk$484
SafeOp$344
EVENITY$254
MazorX - Renaissance$193
Biomet SpinalPak Non-invasive Spine Fusion Stimulator System$174
ALLOFIBER$165
Spinal-Stim$162

How this compares

$187,262 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 51 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$155,534

Medicare patients

146

Services billed

2,061

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
Meloxicam	153	$385
Celecoxib	20	$334
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	29	$96
Methylprednisolone	15	$95
Tramadol Hcl	11	$26

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Smyrna

Juris ShibayamaSmyrna$40K
James FishSmyrna$6K
Lawrence BabatNashville$1.3M
Raymond GardockiNashville$666K
Samuel SchroerluckeMemphis$580K
Ryan SnowdenNashville$338K
James JolleyChattanooga$231K
Michael McNamaraFranklin$150K
John KlekampFranklin$148K
Colin CrosbyNashville$146K

See the full list for Tennessee →

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.

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