Matthew Higgins, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1629205752
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 46 payments — averaging $75.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Innovation Technologies Inc$460
- Stryker$392
- Zimmer Biomet$300
- Linvatec Corporation$68
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$66
- plus $384 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,44641%
- Food & beverage$2,04459%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 12 | $1,820 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 4 | $460 |
| Stryker | 5 | $392 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $300 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 3 | $68 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $66 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $65 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 2 | $37 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $33 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $29 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $18 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
| Abbott | 1 | $17 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- NAVIO$1,405
- Irrisept$368
- HIP6 Software$135
- OR3O Dual Mobility$104
- REDAPT$104
- MAKO$103
How this compares
$3,491 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 381 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 24 | $348 |
| Methocarbamol | 24 | $239 |
| Celecoxib | 29 | $186 |
| Ibuprofen | 15 | $88 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 19 | $86 |
| Meloxicam | 44 | $69 |
| Amoxicillin | 49 | $54 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 12 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Chattanooga
- Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.5M
- Scott SteinmannChattanooga$209K
- Matthew BernardChattanooga$136K
- Dirk KinerChattanooga$109K
- Warren GardnerChattanooga$80K
- Paul BradyKnoxville$20.1M
- Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
- Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.9M
- Tyler BrolinCollierville$1M
- Jefferson MorrisonNashville$910K
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.