Mark Sanders, MD
General Surgery · Springfield, TNNPI 1265495303
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $10,000 of the $15,420 with a category attached, or 64.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 96.9% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $8,012 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $18 in 2025. Among general 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 53 payments — averaging $290.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Stryker$248
- Smith+Nephew$79
- Conmed Corporation$36
- Boston Scientific$20
- Surmodics, Inc.$20
- plus $77 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,70124%
- Food & beverage$1,70511%
- Education$10,00065%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 32 | $14,940 |
| Stryker | 10 | $248 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $79 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $36 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$14,689
How this compares
$15,420 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 27 general 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf | 19 | $3,029 |
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 29 | $1,677 |
| Famotidine | 73 | $790 |
| Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 43 | $678 |
| Omeprazole | 55 | $625 |
| Sucralfate | 18 | $466 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 24 | $92 |
| Ibuprofen | 23 | $84 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other general surgery in Springfield
- Kenneth TozerMilan$47K
- Jeffrey McCarterCookeville$23K
- Jeffrey MooreCookeville$14K
- Paul PasarillaMurfreesboro$6K
- Panagiotis DrakosGreeneville$4K
- Walter RoseChattanooga$2K
- Scott CopelandCookeville$2K
- Jonathan CohenNashville$1K
- Henry NelsonKnoxville$193
- Kenneth MillerOak Ridge$83
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.