Mark Hinson, MD
Surgery · Columbia, TNNPI 1972584514
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 100 payments — averaging $146.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$13K
- Stryker$336
- Medtronic$259
- Boston Scientific$156
- Innovation Technologies Inc$118
- Davol Inc.$65
- plus $424 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,45624%
- Food & beverage$3,16122%
- Education$8,00055%
- Gifts$250%
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 | 55 | $13,284 |
| Stryker | 5 | $336 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $259 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $156 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $118 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $37 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $34 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $31 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $26 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Neuros Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Bolder Surgical LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Merit Medical Systems 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$11,347
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- DA VINCI SP$206
- LigaSure$121
How this compares
$14,642 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 516 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 11 | $457 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 111 | $227 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 19 | $114 |
| Levofloxacin | 18 | $44 |
| Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $29 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $8 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Columbia
- Chad MossColumbia$32K
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$2.5M
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- Eric WallaceCookeville$529K
- Guy VoellerMemphis$434K
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Jaime Ponce-PortugalChattanooga$412K
- Robert MaxwellChattanooga$393K
- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
- Richard PierceNashville$276K
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.