Kent Rinehart, MD
Hand Surgery · Knoxville, TNNPI 1083064794
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $5,750 of the $8,895 with a category attached, or 64.6%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alpha Orthopedic Systems at 41.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,665 and has fallen 87.0% since, to $608 in 2025.
Across 76 payments — averaging $117.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$4K
- Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC$1K
- RSW Medical Company, Inc.$950
- Zimmer Biomet$635
- Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC$559
- Smith+Nephew$451
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,14535%
- Education$5,75065%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 9 | $3,669 |
| Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC | 2 | $1,294 |
| RSW Medical Company, Inc. | 1 | $950 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $635 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 12 | $559 |
| Smith+Nephew | 10 | $451 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $268 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $220 |
| Stryker | 6 | $180 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $159 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 2 | $113 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $95 |
| Axogen | 1 | $63 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 3 | $44 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $40 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Persona$219
- Knees Product Portfolio$150
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$147
- PRIMARY SHOULDER$125
- Nexel$111
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$111
- VA-LCP$111
- NA$102
- HAMMERLOCK$102
How this compares
$8,895 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 147 | $913 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 62 | $395 |
| Meloxicam | 44 | $184 |
| Cephalexin | 22 | $93 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 11 | $72 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 17 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Knoxville
- Joshua MossKnoxville$17K
- 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.