Has Marion Gillespie, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $67,143 in general payments to Marion Gillespie, MD across 143 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 Marion Gillespie, 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 Marion Gillespie, 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.

Marion Gillespie, MD

Otolaryngology · Memphis, TNNPI 1255444212

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (51.1%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cook Incorporated at 47.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $37,506 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $517 in 2025. Among otolaryngology 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.

$67,143in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 143 payments — averaging $469.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Cook Incorporated$32K
Medtronic$23K
Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH$5K
Ambu A/s$2K
Cook Medical LLC$2K
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$2K
plus $2K from 12 others

$108,819in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 52 payments — averaging $2092.67 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$60K
Livanova USA, Inc.$22K
Cook Research Incorporated$21K
Medtronic$5K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$34,33951%
Speaking & faculty fees$20,51331%
Travel & lodging$7,15511%
Food & beverage$5,1248%
Gifts$120%

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
Cook Incorporated	19	$31,555
Medtronic(3 entities)	53	$22,767
Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH	3	$4,836
Ambu A/s	2	$2,020
Cook Medical LLC	17	$1,989
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	18	$1,529
Aerin Medical Inc.	7	$575
Stryker	4	$451
Ambu Inc.	1	$400
Zimmer Biomet	4	$366
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$216
Smith+Nephew	3	$139
Kls-martin L.p.	2	$80
KARL Storz Endoscopy-america	2	$71
Pentax Of America, Inc.	2	$58
Neurent Medical Limited	1	$44
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA	2	$34
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	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.

Cook Medical Sleep$18,464
Cook Medical Needles$6,400
Cook Medical Tongue Base$6,241
Olympus$2,796
Cook-Swartz$1,313
Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$1,173
Cook Medical Accessories$409
VIVAER STYLUS$389
RHINAER STYLUS$389
CAUSSE$248
Traumaone$246
Cook Medical Lithotripters$200
SCOPIS ENT$170
CODMAN CERTAS$127
CUSA CLARITY$127
DURAGEN$127
DURASEAL EXACT$127
CODMAN HAKIM PRECISION VALVE$127
SPIROX - LATERA$121
NIM Vital$116

How this compares

$67,143 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 191 otolaryngology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$114,423

Medicare patients

272

Services billed

1,129

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
Fluticasone Propionate	127	$1,826
Azelastine Hcl	22	$720
Omeprazole	42	$713
Fluocinonide	12	$420
Triamcinolone Acetonide	26	$86
Methylprednisolone	15	$81
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	11	$33

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Memphis

John GleysteenMemphis$25K
Rande LazarMemphis$9K
Anas EidMemphis$4K
Rakesh ChandraNashville$381K
David FortuneHermitage$298K
Grady BryantHermitage$74K
Clyde MathisonFarragut$66K
Dean KlugGermantown$37K
Michael TopfNashville$36K
Allan RosenbaumPowell$21K

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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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