Kevin Foley, MD
Neurological Surgery · Memphis, TNNPI 1861451874
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $131,027,832 of the $162,413,873 with a category attached, or 80.7%. Medtronic accounts for 80.7% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $49,954,735 and has fallen 59.6% since, to $20,187,012 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 366 payments — averaging $443,754 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$131.1M
- Triad Life Sciences Inc.$31M
- Digital Surgery Systems, Inc.$242K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$27K
- Curiteva, Inc.$11K
- Durastat LLC$7K
- plus $3K from 15 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $18,163 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$109K
Across 18 payments — averaging $298,078 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Durastat LLC$3.1M
- Nview Medical, Inc$1.8M
- Spine Wave, Inc.$248K
- Intellijoint Surgical Inc.$132K
- Triad Life Sciences Inc.$0
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$131,027,83281%
- Consulting fees$293,8130%
- Speaking & faculty fees$15,4400%
- Travel & lodging$34,2620%
- Food & beverage$10,3180%
- Other$31,032,20919%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 308 | $131,091,363 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 5 | $31,032,224 |
| Digital Surgery Systems, Inc. | 1 | $242,000 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 17 | $27,295 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 5 | $11,128 |
| Durastat LLC | 1 | $7,033 |
| Implanet America, Inc. | 5 | $722 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 7 | $467 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $430 |
| MML US, Inc. | 2 | $277 |
| Ecential Robotics | 2 | $235 |
| Nview Medical, Inc | 2 | $181 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $155 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 2 | $152 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $103 |
| Viseon, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $16 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$44,866,735
- CD HORIZON$31,926,317
- CAPSTONE$7,492,881
- METRX SYSTEM$6,295,656
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$6,167,564
- ELEVATE$6,020,715
- METRx$4,523,983
- CAPSTONE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$4,386,017
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$3,929,838
- Anatomic PEEK$3,298,200
- ANATOMIC PEEK PTC CERVICAL FUSION SYSTEM$3,126,069
- ELEVATE SPINAL SYSTEM$2,915,914
- DIVERGENCE$2,105,524
- DIVERGENCE ANTERIOR CERVICAL FUSION SYSTEM$1,830,117
- SURETRAK$1,531,306
- MIDAS REX$646,449
- AESCULAP$242,000
- Other - Miscellaneous$26,686
- VERTEX$3,500
- INFUSE$3,125
How this compares
$162,413,873 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 156 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 24 | $384 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 12 | $75 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Memphis
- Maurice SmithMemphis$4.4M
- Adam ArthurMemphis$1.9M
- Paul ParkMemphis$1.2M
- Daniel HoitMemphis$607K
- Jason GerrardMemphis$112K
- Earl JonesMemphis$59K
- Demi DawkinsMemphis$56K
- Isaac PomeraniecMemphis$56K
- Kyle SmithMemphis$48K
- Christopher NickeleMemphis$45K
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.