Laura Lawson, MD
Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1881795847
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $22,680 of the $36,065 with a category attached, or 62.9%. Cardinal Health 414 LLC accounts for 62.9% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $9,470, more than ten times the $135 reported in 2019. Among 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.
Across 81 payments — averaging $445.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cardinal Health 414 LLC$23K
- Impedimed, Inc.$11K
- Axogen$778
- Endomagnetics Ltd$283
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$257
- Merck$219
- plus $1K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$22,68063%
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,72630%
- Travel & lodging$3521%
- Food & beverage$2,2736%
- Entertainment$350%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal Health 414 LLC | 13 | $22,680 |
| Impedimed, Inc. | 5 | $10,726 |
| Axogen | 3 | $778 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 2 | $283 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 7 | $257 |
| Merck | 9 | $219 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 4 | $195 |
| Hologic Inc | 2 | $125 |
| Vertex | 4 | $125 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 5 | $122 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 6 | $112 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $94 |
| Sirius Medical Systems | 1 | $57 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $50 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $46 |
| KUB Technologies Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| Focal Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $20 |
| Stryker | 1 | $17 |
| Puma Biotechnology, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 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
$36,065 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 516 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Nashville
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$362K
- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
- Joseph BroucekNashville$262K
- Ashok BabuNashville$126K
- Meredith DukeNashville$77K
- Zachary CallahanNashville$65K
- Joseph DelozierNashville$44K
- Richard PierceNashville$23K
- David DyerNashville$23K
- Roshni VenugopalNashville$21K
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.