Joshua Moss, MD
Hand Surgery · Knoxville, TNNPI 1265655385
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (31.5%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 55.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $9,709 and has fallen 98.5% since, to $142 in 2025.
Across 44 payments — averaging $383.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$9K
- Techmah Medical, LLC$4K
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$2K
- Stryker$556
- Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC$269
- Trice Medical, Inc.$156
- plus $271 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,00024%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,38826%
- Travel & lodging$5,32432%
- Food & beverage$1,96712%
- Education$1,2007%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 11 | $9,434 |
| Techmah Medical, LLC | 2 | $4,052 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 8 | $2,140 |
| Stryker | 7 | $556 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 6 | $269 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 2 | $156 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $40 |
| Axogen | 2 | $37 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $24 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $18 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $16 |
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.
- ENSITE PRECISION$9,068
- SmartSpace Shoulder$4,000
- VARIAX$122
- ICONIX$120
- REUNION$119
- APTUS$113
How this compares
$16,878 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 60 hand 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 19 | $58 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $38 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Knoxville
- Kent RinehartKnoxville$9K
- Kristen PloetzeKnoxville$7K
- Andrew HarrisKnoxville$6K
- David CooperKnoxville$3K
- Benjamin RogozinskiKnoxville$2K
- Edward BurnsKnoxville$2K
- Robert IvyKnoxville$1K
- Timothy RenfreeKnoxville$1K
- Richard SmithKnoxville$378
- John HarrisonKnoxville$347
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.