Lemuel Dent, DO
Trauma Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1235139916
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,000 of the $10,900 with a category attached, or 64.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 91.3% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among trauma 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 64 payments — averaging $170.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- AstraZeneca$174
- BD$165
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$81
- Stryker$61
- Organogenesis Inc.$53
- plus $410 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,51223%
- Food & beverage$1,38813%
- Education$7,00064%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 31 | $9,957 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 4 | $174 |
| BD | 2 | $165 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $81 |
| Stryker | 1 | $61 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $49 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $46 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Merck | 1 | $33 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 2 | $30 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $23 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $17 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $13 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$7,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,443
- Phasix Mesh$147
- ANDEXXA$125
How this compares
$10,900 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 38 trauma 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 | 17 | $91 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other trauma surgery in Nashville
- Bryan CottonNashville$306K
- Oliver GunterNashville$46K
- Michael SmithNashville$9K
- Stephen GadomskiNashville$7K
- Steven BrooksNashville$5K
- Herbert HopperNashville$5K
- Mayur PatelNashville$5K
- Anne WagnerNashville$4K
- Stephen GondekNashville$3K
- Jill StreamsNashville$3K
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.