Panambur Laxminaraya Bhandari, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1326493461
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,121 of the $2,958 with a category attached, or 71.7%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Axogen at 57.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,857 and has fallen 80.7% since, to $358 in 2025.
Across 27 payments — averaging $109.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axogen$2K
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$194
- AbbVie$178
- Bone Support Inc.$154
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$153
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$136
- plus $451 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$83828%
- Food & beverage$2,12172%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axogen | 7 | $1,693 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $194 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $178 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $154 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $153 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $136 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $135 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $49 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Music City Medical Technologies, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $12 |
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.
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$1,516
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$1,516
- INTEGRA$405
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$154
- CERAMENT G$154
- Checkpoint Stimulators$153
- XIAFLEX$150
- Cohealyx$136
- RECELL$136
- PERMEADERM$136
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$135
- PRIMATRIX$135
- SkinTE$117
How this compares
$2,958 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 77 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Tennessee.
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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 plastic and reconstructive surgery in Nashville
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- Jordi Puente EspelNashville$16K
- Galen PerdikisNashville$7K
- Matthew PontellNashville$7K
- Robert GarzaNashville$6K
- Omotayo ArowojoluNashville$4K
- Lauren ConnorNashville$4K
- John HillNashville$3K
- William LineaweaverNashville$2K
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.