Jonathan Cornelius, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Lebanon, TNNPI 1285843896
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $20,025 of the $25,210 with a category attached, or 79.4%. Stryker accounts for 98.2% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $24,210, more than ten times the $563 reported in 2019.
Across 54 payments — averaging $466.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$25K
- Amgen$140
- DJO, LLC$105
- Abbott$76
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$30
- Avanos Medical$22
- plus $91 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20,02579%
- Travel & lodging$3,65214%
- Food & beverage$1,5336%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 29 | $24,747 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 10 | $140 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $105 |
| Abbott | 5 | $76 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $22 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $21 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $12 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- MAKO$23,838
- MAKOPLASTY$403
- REUNION$141
- DONJOY$105
- AIRCAST$105
How this compares
$25,210 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 78 | $2,513 |
| Mupirocin | 299 | $2,264 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 89 | $2,221 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 162 | $1,710 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 81 | $915 |
| Meloxicam | 146 | $683 |
| Gabapentin | 101 | $471 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 32 | $471 |
| Methylprednisolone | 59 | $389 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 33 | $218 |
| Amoxicillin | 145 | $205 |
| Prednisone | 66 | $196 |
| Ibuprofen | 15 | $190 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 42 | $113 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 16 | $99 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Lebanon
- Paul BradyKnoxville$20M
- Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
- Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
- Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M
- Alton HunterColumbia$820K
- Jefferson MorrisonNashville$678K
- Michael BeebeMemphis$626K
- Gregory PolkowskiNashville$526K
- Matthew WillisNashville$498K
- Michael ChristieNashville$474K
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.