Melvin Payne, MD
Surgery · Bartlett, TNNPI 1033229216
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $11,175 of the $16,714 with a category attached, or 66.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 92.6% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $9,674 and has fallen 70.9% since, to $2,814 in 2025.
Across 52 payments — averaging $321.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- Endogastric Solutions, Inc$90
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,83123%
- Food & beverage$1,70010%
- Education$11,17567%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 38 | $15,485 |
| Davol Inc. | 13 | $1,139 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $90 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$11,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,774
- Phasix Mesh$841
How this compares
$16,714 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 83 | $346 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Bartlett
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- Eric WallaceCookeville$529K
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Jaime Ponce-PortugalChattanooga$412K
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$362K
- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
- Joseph BroucekNashville$262K
- Linda HanGermantown$252K
- Myron StokesCordova$240K
- Kenneth CutshallJohnson City$210K
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.