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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $27,557 in general payments to John Weldy, MD across 56 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 Weldy, 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 Weldy, 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 Weldy, MD

Sports Medicine · Franklin, TNNPI 1427510718

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $23,500 of the $27,557 with a category attached, or 85.3%. Arthrex accounts for 76.7% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $22,464 and has fallen 80.5% since, to $4,384 in 2025.

$27,557in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 56 payments — averaging $492.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$21K
Smith+Nephew$4K
Stryker$1K
Prime Surgical, LLC$510
Medtronic$344
Bioventus LLC$144
plus $421 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Grants$23,50085%
Travel & lodging$9133%
Food & beverage$3,14411%

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
Arthrex	11	$21,145
Smith+Nephew	5	$3,794
Stryker	18	$1,199
Prime Surgical, LLC	6	$510
Medtronic	5	$344
Bioventus LLC	2	$144
Music City Medical Technologies, LLC	1	$141
Johnson & Johnson	4	$138
Biocomposites Inc	1	$72
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$28
Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC	1	$23
AbbVie	1	$19

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

$27,557 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 147 sports medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$2,468

Medicare patients

Services billed

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.

Other sports medicine in Franklin

Ian ByramFranklin$252K
Colin LooneyFranklin$68K
William CookFranklin$12K
Richard GibsonFranklin$11K
Scott ArthurFranklin$9K
Ronald DerrFranklin$8K
Jeffrey DlabachCollierville$504K
Jw ByrdNashville$248K
Lucas RichieLebanon$159K
Zachary PharrColumbia$75K

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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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