Has Rudolph Glattes, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $443,522 in general payments to Rudolph Glattes, MD across 144 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 Rudolph Glattes, 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 Rudolph Glattes, 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.

Rudolph Glattes, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1346359460

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $435,491 of the $443,522 with a category attached, or 98.2%. Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation accounts for 74.0% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $110,723 and has fallen 56.1% since, to $48,609 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.

$443,522in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 144 payments — averaging $3080.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$328K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$108K
Medtronic$3K
Arthrex$2K
Music City Medical Technologies, LLC$1K
Intrinsic Therapeutics$368
plus $1K from 14 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$435,49198%
Travel & lodging$3,5151%
Food & beverage$4,5161%

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
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	16	$328,197
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	26	$107,709
Medtronic(2 entities)	46	$2,858
Arthrex	17	$2,180
Music City Medical Technologies, LLC	14	$1,012
Intrinsic Therapeutics	4	$368
Abyrx, Inc	1	$276
Baxter Healthcare	4	$220
Alphatec Spine, Inc	1	$186
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$147
AbbVie	1	$59
Bioventus LLC	2	$54
Amgen	4	$51
Boston Scientific	1	$46
Smith+Nephew	1	$31
Vertex	1	$31
Vericel Corporation	1	$29
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$27
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$22
Theragen, Inc.	1	$19

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.

Malibu$390,239
Physio-Stim$45,251
O-ARM-ST$1,041
BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$574
INVICTUS OPEN$186
CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$172
DIVERGENCE-L$167
O-ARM$163
i-FACTOR Putty$147
Meridian$143
ADAPTIX INTERBODY SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$129
UNID_PASS$117
MEDTRONIC REUSABLE INSTRUMENTS$114
CLYDESDALE$102

How this compares

$443,522 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 381 orthopaedic surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$253,099

Medicare patients

432

Services billed

1,818

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
Gabapentin	160	$1,226
Pregabalin	58	$684
Methocarbamol	60	$466
Lidocaine	12	$401
Celecoxib	24	$394
Baclofen	29	$356
Tizanidine Hcl	38	$317
Diclofenac Sodium	28	$260
Methylprednisolone	35	$201
Meloxicam	41	$129
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	31	$126
Nortriptyline Hcl	19	$106
Tramadol Hcl	31	$79
Diazepam	16	$7

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Gregory PolkowskiNashville$526K
Matthew WillisNashville$498K
Michael ChristieNashville$474K
David DeboerNashville$448K
John MartinNashville$212K
Nicholas StrasserNashville$184K
Jeffrey HodrickNashville$173K
Brian DierckmanNashville$172K
Stephen EngstromNashville$149K

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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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