Oliver Gunter, MD
Trauma Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1235167388
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $37,800 of the $46,486 with a category attached, or 81.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.3% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $35,519, more than ten times the $33 reported in 2022. Among trauma surgery 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 111 payments — averaging $418.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$46K
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$140
- ETS Wound Care LLC$136
- Prytime Medical Devices, Inc.$33
- Zimmer Biomet$26
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5003%
- Travel & lodging$4,63810%
- Food & beverage$2,5495%
- Education$37,80081%
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 | 97 | $46,151 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 5 | $140 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 7 | $136 |
| Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $26 |
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$35,370
- DAVINCI XI$9,500
How this compares
$46,486 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 38 trauma 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.
Other trauma surgery in Nashville
- Bryan CottonNashville$306K
- Lemuel DentNashville$11K
- Michael SmithNashville$9K
- Stephen GadomskiNashville$7K
- Steven BrooksNashville$5K
- Herbert HopperNashville$5K
- Mayur PatelNashville$5K
- Anne WagnerNashville$4K
- Stephen GondekNashville$3K
- Jill StreamsNashville$3K
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.