Lauren Nelson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1194220095
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $50,000 of the $60,401 with a category attached, or 82.8%. Medtronic accounts for 88.9% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $52,288 and has fallen 91.2% since, to $4,585 in 2025.
Across 88 payments — averaging $686.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$54K
- Stryker$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$1K
- DJO, LLC$380
- Nexxt Spine LLC$264
- plus $986 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$50,00083%
- Travel & lodging$5,92810%
- Food & beverage$4,1807%
- Education$2930%
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 | 35 | $53,704 |
| Stryker | 9 | $1,915 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $1,832 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 6 | $1,320 |
| DJO, LLC | 11 | $380 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 2 | $264 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $178 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 3 | $174 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $156 |
| EBI, LLC | 3 | $155 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 5 | $138 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $42 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $22 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 1 | $22 |
| Bioventus LLC | 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.
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$51,903
- SYMPHONY$1,722
- AERO-LL$1,605
- CellerateRx$178
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$167
- MagnetOs$156
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$144
- Nexxt Matrixx Cervical MCS$142
- CMF$141
- UNID_PASS$139
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$125
- Nexxt Matrixx Patient Specific Implants$121
- AXSOS$121
- Biomet SpinalPak Non-invasive Spine Fusion Stimulator System$103
- PRESTIGE LP CERVICAL DISC SYSTEM$101
How this compares
$60,401 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 381 orthopaedic 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 Hcl | 50 | $261 |
| Methylprednisolone | 33 | $241 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 23 | $67 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 12 | $43 |
| Methocarbamol | 11 | $37 |
| Meloxicam | 18 | $22 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Nashville
- Jefferson MorrisonNashville$678K
- Gregory PolkowskiNashville$526K
- Matthew WillisNashville$498K
- Michael ChristieNashville$474K
- David DeboerNashville$448K
- Rudolph GlattesNashville$444K
- John MartinNashville$212K
- Nicholas StrasserNashville$184K
- Jeffrey HodrickNashville$173K
- Brian DierckmanNashville$172K
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.