Has Kirk Thompson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $119,102 in general payments to Kirk Thompson, MD across 129 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Kirk Thompson, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Kirk Thompson, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Kirk Thompson, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Germantown, TNNPI 1841610458

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $75,000 of the $119,102 with a category attached, or 63.0%. Globus Medical accounts for 66.5% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $77,987 and has fallen 85.5% since, to $11,345 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$119,102in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 129 payments — averaging $923.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$79K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$21K
Medtronic$16K
Stryker$2K
Synthes GmbH$516
Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions$343
plus $656 from 13 others

$9,875in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $9875.00 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.

Orthofix Medical, Inc.$10K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$30,67826%
Grants$75,00063%
Travel & lodging$6,7066%
Food & beverage$5,3955%
Education$1,3231%

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
Globus Medical(2 entities)	42	$79,161
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	34	$20,603
Medtronic(2 entities)	19	$15,893
Stryker	7	$1,930
Synthes GmbH	1	$516
Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions	4	$343
Amgen	7	$120
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$101
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	1	$84
Johnson & Johnson	1	$66
Bioventus LLC	2	$65
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$46
Misonix Inc	2	$30
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$30
Acumed LLC	1	$26
Convatec Inc.	1	$25
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	1	$21
Kerecis Limited	1	$21
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC	1	$21

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.

M6-C$16,071
INFINITY OCCIPITOCERVICAL UPPER THORACIC SYSTEM$7,500
MAST QUADRANT RETRACTOR SYSTEM$3,600
Mariner MIS$1,813
NorthStar$1,813
CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$1,500
CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$1,490
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,490
XLIF$1,432
ASCENT;ASCENT LE;CENTURION$606
SPACE-D SYSTEM 5.5/6.0 VOYAGER INSTRUMENT SET$600
TLIF$589
PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$497
ASCENT;ASCENT LE;FIREBIRD SFS;ICON SFS;SFS$370
LessRay$289
GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$282
Pulse$261
OZARK CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$168
SERRATO$168
YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$168

How this compares

$119,102 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 381 orthopaedic surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$312,879

Medicare patients

301

Services billed

2,400

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
Minocycline Hcl	57	$669
Oxycodone Hcl	50	$360
Gabapentin	40	$341
Pregabalin	25	$326
Methocarbamol	44	$306
Celecoxib	25	$227
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	24	$200
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	22	$129
Promethazine Hcl	45	$93
Prednisone	32	$56
Meloxicam	18	$50
Tramadol Hcl	15	$39
Diazepam	13	$24

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Germantown

Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M
Chad CampionGermantown$311K
Thomas RussellGermantown$131K
Carson RiderGermantown$128K
Christopher CosgroveGermantown$109K
Jan SzatkowskiGermantown$103K
Paul BradyKnoxville$20M
Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
Alton HunterColumbia$820K

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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.

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