Paul Abbey, MD
Hand Surgery · Hermitage, TNNPI 1124029699
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,200 of the $1,971 with a category attached, or 60.9%. Alpha Orthopedic Systems accounts for 61.6% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,557 and has fallen 94.1% since, to $91 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $3,914.
Across 20 payments — averaging $98.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$1K
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$323
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$122
- Organogenesis Inc.$92
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$67
- Vertex$30
- plus $124 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$77139%
- Education$1,20061%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 2 | $1,214 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 4 | $323 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 5 | $92 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $67 |
| Vertex | 1 | $30 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $24 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $22 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- XIAFLEX$122
How this compares
$1,971 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 60 hand 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 32 | $259 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 24 | $226 |
| Ibuprofen | 28 | $184 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Hermitage
- Donald LeeNashville$546K
- Mihir DesaiNashville$110K
- Gleb MedvedevNashville$60K
- Brett SandersChattanooga$55K
- Todd RubinNashville$39K
- Jed MaslowNashville$29K
- Paul GormanJohnson City$24K
- Jane SiegelNashville$22K
- Daniel BranhamOak Ridge$19K
- Heather TaillacCookeville$17K
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.