Has Marc Aiken, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,237 in general payments to Marc Aiken, MD across 40 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 Marc Aiken, 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 Marc Aiken, 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.

Marc Aiken, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Johnson City, TNNPI 1558327395

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,237in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $255.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Synthes GmbH$8K
Stryker$2K
SIGN Fracture Care International$550
Zimmer Biomet$196
Johnson & Johnson$157
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$104
plus $121 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$4,05040%
Travel & lodging$4,10940%
Food & beverage$2,07820%

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
Synthes GmbH	7	$7,577
Stryker	22	$1,533
SIGN Fracture Care International	1	$550
Zimmer Biomet	2	$196
Johnson & Johnson	2	$157
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$104
Arthrex	1	$48
Abbott	2	$38
Masimo Corporation	1	$36

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.

TRITANIUM$302
TRIATHLON$248
VARIAX$150
Velys$141
MAKO$136
OPERON$136
VISUM$136
Juggerknotless Soft Anchor$126
NONE$123
REUNION$116

How this compares

$10,237 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 381 orthopaedic surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$84,803

Medicare patients

195

Services billed

1,014

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
Meloxicam	468	$1,539
Methylprednisolone	69	$615
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	56	$581
Celecoxib	35	$420
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	27	$181
Nabumetone	14	$92
Amoxicillin	60	$72
Tramadol Hcl	12	$60
Clindamycin Hcl	12	$12

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Johnson City

Scott MacdonaldJohnson City$114K
Thomas HuddlestonJohnson City$59K
Larry WaldropJohnson City$45K
Alan AikenJohnson City$45K
Paul BradyKnoxville$20.1M
Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.5M
Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.9M
Tyler BrolinCollierville$1M
Jefferson MorrisonNashville$910K

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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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