Has Robert Thompson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $205,093 in general payments to Robert Thompson, MD across 73 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 Robert Thompson, 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 Robert Thompson, 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.

Robert Thompson, MD

Foot and Ankle Surgery · Murfreesboro, TNNPI 1417101858

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by ownership interests: $165,000 of the $205,093 with a category attached, or 80.5%. Paragon 28, Inc. accounts for 98.8% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $172,904 and has fallen 97.4% since, to $4,524 in 2025. Among foot and ankle 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.

$205,093in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 73 payments — averaging $2809.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Paragon 28, Inc.$203K
Axogen$1K
Stryker$570
Restor3d, Inc.$228
Music City Medical Technologies, LLC$215
Alpha Orthopedic Systems$153

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$9,2144%
Consulting fees$23,29111%
Travel & lodging$4,7892%
Food & beverage$2,7991%
Ownership interest$165,00080%

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
Paragon 28, Inc.	47	$202,593
Axogen	6	$1,335
Stryker	11	$570
Restor3d, Inc.	1	$228
Music City Medical Technologies, LLC	4	$215
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	4	$153

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

$205,093 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 145 foot and ankle surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$111,359

Medicare patients

289

Services billed

2,328

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
Diclofenac Sodium	60	$1,385
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	69	$454
Cephalexin	62	$257
Meloxicam	74	$142
Methylprednisolone	16	$122

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot and ankle surgery in Murfreesboro

Andrew LamayMurfreesboro$8K
Sebastien DemoinyMorristown$210K
Bhekumuzi KhumaloUnion City$201K
Walter ButlerMemphis$191K
Chad WebsterCordova$185K
Christian SmithCordova$153K
Frank OgnibeneMemphis$148K
Garnett MurphyGermantown$130K
Clayton BettinMemphis$89K
David RichardsonGermantown$61K

See the full list for Tennessee →

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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