Joseph Schaffer, MD
Sports Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1275875775
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (50.8%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 38.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,127 and has fallen 95.6% since, to $270 in 2025.
Across 81 payments — averaging $125.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$4K
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$4K
- Stryker$1K
- Smith+Nephew$333
- Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.$196
- Music City Medical Technologies, LLC$163
- plus $486 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,57525%
- Food & beverage$2,40924%
- Education$5,14551%
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 | 24 | $3,850 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 16 | $3,798 |
| Stryker | 7 | $1,303 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $333 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $196 |
| Music City Medical Technologies, LLC | 3 | $163 |
| Wound Management Technologies, Inc | 1 | $83 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $77 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $74 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $44 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $44 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
| Abbott | 1 | $17 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 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.
How this compares
$10,129 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 147 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 27 | $207 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $168 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 24 | $137 |
| Ibuprofen | 14 | $118 |
| Methylprednisolone | 14 | $113 |
| Meloxicam | 18 | $42 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 22 | $39 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Nashville
- Jw ByrdNashville$248K
- Christopher JonesNashville$35K
- Christian AndersonNashville$24K
- Calvin DyerNashville$11K
- Paul CrookNashville$7K
- Eric BowmanNashville$6K
- Jeffrey DlabachCollierville$504K
- Ian ByramFranklin$252K
- Lucas RichieLebanon$159K
- Zachary PharrColumbia$75K
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.