Has Richard Gibson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,799 in general payments to Richard Gibson, MD across 18 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Richard Gibson, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Richard Gibson, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Richard Gibson, MD

Sports Medicine · Franklin, TNNPI 1326571084

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $10,000 of the $10,799 with a category attached, or 92.6%. Arthrex accounts for 93.8% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $10,033 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $40 in 2025.

$10,799in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $599.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$10K
Smith+Nephew$268
DJO, LLC$165
Amgen$125
Zimmer Biomet$33
Alpha Orthopedic Systems$32
plus $52 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Grants$10,00093%
Food & beverage$7717%
Education$280%

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
Arthrex	2	$10,125
Smith+Nephew	2	$268
DJO, LLC	2	$165
Amgen	6	$125
Zimmer Biomet	1	$33
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	2	$32
Music City Medical Technologies, LLC	1	$21
Bioventus LLC	1	$19
Novo Nordisk	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.

How this compares

$10,799 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 147 sports medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$320,030

Medicare patients

789

Services billed

18,773

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	94	$617
Diclofenac Sodium	16	$91
Naproxen	27	$86
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	23	$82
Meloxicam	12	$41
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	12	$38

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in Franklin

Ian ByramFranklin$252K
Colin LooneyFranklin$68K
John WeldyFranklin$28K
William CookFranklin$12K
Scott ArthurFranklin$9K
Ronald DerrFranklin$8K
Jeffrey DlabachCollierville$504K
Jw ByrdNashville$248K
Lucas RichieLebanon$159K
Zachary PharrColumbia$75K

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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.

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