John Lavelle, DO
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Knoxville, TNNPI 1942462494
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.5% of the total across 73 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $506 and has fallen 93.5% since, to $33 in 2025.
Across 73 payments — averaging $17.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.$210
- Amgen$163
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$160
- Nevro Corp.$103
- Radius Health, Inc.$93
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$92
- plus $480 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,26898%
- Education$322%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 38 | $210 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 4 | $163 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $160 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $103 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 4 | $93 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $92 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $83 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $75 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $62 |
| Spinefrontier, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $55 |
| Abbott | 2 | $33 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 1 | $30 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $25 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $22 |
| Stryker | 1 | $19 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 3 | $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.
How this compares
$1,300 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 134 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Tennessee.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nabumetone | 62 | $636 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 27 | $188 |
| Prednisone | 42 | $99 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Knoxville
- Faye KiblerKnoxville$5K
- Bruce FryKnoxville$3K
- Samuel YoakumKnoxville$1K
- Michael HeslinKnoxville$872
- Joshua JohnsonKnoxville$685
- John OwensKnoxville$646
- Michael CraigKnoxville$605
- Adam EppsKnoxville$523
- William RidenKnoxville$475
- Daniel KiblerKnoxville$457
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.