Paul Naylor
Orthopaedic Surgery · Knoxville, TNNPI 1265407878
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $134,167 of the $183,639 with a category attached, or 73.1%. Innovation Technologies Inc accounts for 99.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $79,415 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $509 in 2025. Among orthopaedic 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 105 payments — averaging $1748.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Innovation Technologies Inc$183K
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$280
- Stryker$143
- Johnson & Johnson$137
- Zimmer Biomet$122
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$85
- plus $198 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$134,16773%
- Speaking & faculty fees$40,16522%
- Travel & lodging$3,9042%
- Food & beverage$5,0813%
- Entertainment$3220%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 86 | $182,674 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 1 | $280 |
| Stryker | 1 | $143 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $137 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $122 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $85 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| Amgen | 5 | $60 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $22 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 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.
- Irrisept$181,433
- TRIATHLON$143
- TFN ADVANCED$120
How this compares
$183,639 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 381 orthopaedic surgery providers in Tennessee.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Knoxville
- Paul BradyKnoxville$20M
- Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
- George HollowayKnoxville$124K
- Harold CatesKnoxville$106K
- Adam ShortKnoxville$87K
- Brian EdkinKnoxville$60K
- Austin DavidsonKnoxville$56K
- Benjamin WeisenthalKnoxville$52K
- Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
- Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.