Michael King
Podiatrist · Nashville, TNNPI 1326153339
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $131,370 of the $190,479 with a category attached, or 69.0%. Averitas Pharma Inc. accounts for 80.5% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $90,501 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $37 in 2025. Among podiatrist 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.
Across 262 payments — averaging $727.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Averitas Pharma Inc.$153K
- GRT US Holding, Inc.$29K
- Modulated Imaging, Inc.$5K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$2K
- Organogenesis Inc.$485
- Smith+Nephew$66
- plus $160 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,3184%
- Speaking & faculty fees$131,37069%
- Travel & lodging$47,13425%
- Food & beverage$4,6592%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 200 | $153,354 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 36 | $29,445 |
| Modulated Imaging, Inc. | 10 | $5,449 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $1,521 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 5 | $485 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $66 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $38 |
| Collaborative Care Diagnostics, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Amgen | 1 | $29 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $26 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Stryker | 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.
- Qutenza$179,331
- Clarifi Imaging System$5,330
- Zynrelef$1,521
- Affinity$237
- PuraPly$102
How this compares
$190,479 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 105 podiatrist providers in Tennessee.
Other podiatrist in Nashville
- Robert FrankfatherNashville$8K
- Adam HicksNashville$6K
- David TrennerNashville$3K
- Justin JexNashville$1K
- Paul SomersNashville$1000
- Jeffrey LovelandSparta$809K
- Penninah KumarMt Juliet$72K
- James HarrisTrenton$49K
- Matthew NeuhausSmyrna$33K
- Paul HutchisonMemphis$17K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.