Michele Whittaker, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1841274404
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 213 payments — averaging $20.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$1K
- Organogenesis Inc.$690
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$254
- Stryker$248
- GE HealthCare$244
- Kerecis Limited$219
- plus $2K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,424100%
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 | 79 | $1,219 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 27 | $690 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 14 | $254 |
| Stryker | 10 | $248 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $244 |
| Kerecis Limited | 5 | $219 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 10 | $170 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 9 | $157 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $139 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 6 | $104 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $102 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 2 | $88 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $77 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $65 |
| Progenacare Global, LLC | 1 | $62 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $56 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $53 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $36 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Sandoz | 2 | $32 |
| Merck | 2 | $31 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $29 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 2 | $26 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$4,424 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 145 foot & ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tavaborole | 14 | $4,066 |
| Mupirocin | 122 | $1,005 |
| Ciclopirox | 30 | $754 |
| Pregabalin | 14 | $524 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 23 | $358 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 23 | $208 |
| Ketoconazole | 20 | $169 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 23 | $153 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 16 | $111 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 19 | $92 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $39 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $21 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Nashville
- William CornNashville$52K
- Jeffrey HerringNashville$22K
- Sheela ChockalingamNashville$15K
- Christopher DreikornNashville$13K
- Andrew PierreNashville$10K
- Bethany GallagherNashville$8K
- Jeffrey WillersNashville$7K
- Reva BorkNashville$7K
- Timothy BushNashville$7K
- Nicholas FussellNashville$6K
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.