Has Lucas Richie, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $159,087 in general payments to Lucas Richie, MD across 353 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 Lucas Richie, 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 Lucas Richie, 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.

Lucas Richie, MD

Sports Medicine · Lebanon, TNNPI 1447419577

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (57.9%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 89.3% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among sports medicine 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.

$159,087in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 353 payments — averaging $450.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$142K
Arthrex$6K
Alpha Orthopedic Systems$6K
Trimed, Inc.$2K
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.$713
Stryker$552
plus $1K from 13 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$14,7009%
Speaking & faculty fees$92,17558%
Travel & lodging$34,59622%
Food & beverage$11,5217%
Education$6,0964%

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
Smith+Nephew	236	$142,097
Arthrex	44	$6,469
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	19	$6,263
Trimed, Inc.	2	$1,684
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	4	$713
Stryker	9	$552
Music City Medical Technologies, LLC	6	$335
Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.	1	$214
Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc.	1	$159
Amgen(2 entities)	10	$149
Motive Health, Inc.	1	$98
Abbott	6	$92
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	8	$79
UCB, Inc.	1	$72
DJO, LLC	1	$39
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$23
Avanos Medical	1	$22
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$17
Bioventus LLC	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.

Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$78,049
Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$67,992
Healicoil$14,850
SPATIAL FRAME$4,399
Q-FIX$910
ACUFEX Meniscal Root Repair$834
Endobutton$644
Mini-Open Latarjet$644
Firstpass$578
Coblation$578
CAP-FIX$332
NOVOSTITCH$332
REAL INTELLIGENCE$217
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$165
PRECICE Intramedullary Limb Lengthening System$159
Regeneten$116
Coblation Wands$116

How this compares

$159,087 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 147 sports medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$104,334

Medicare patients

183

Services billed

1,628

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
Celecoxib	25	$882
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	57	$798
Methylprednisolone	67	$425
Meloxicam	119	$305
Ondansetron Hcl	71	$258
Mupirocin	34	$248
Ibuprofen	16	$210
Tramadol Hcl	16	$27
Cephalexin	29	$26

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in Lebanon

Martha GeorgeLebanon$7K
Jeffrey DlabachCollierville$504K
Ian ByramFranklin$252K
Jw ByrdNashville$248K
Zachary PharrColumbia$75K
Colin LooneyFranklin$68K
Jonathan BryantBristol$67K
Lucas TeskeClarksville$57K
Frederick AzarGermantown$54K
Michael NeelMemphis$50K

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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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