Ryan Snowden, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Nashville, TNNPI 1972861680
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (40.7%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.5%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $13,259, 4.0 times the $3,289 reported in 2019.
Across 148 payments — averaging $198.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Theragen, Inc.$7K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$7K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- Stryker$3K
- Medtronic$3K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- plus $3K from 13 others
Across 72 payments — averaging $4611.95 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$243K
- Si-bone, Inc.$45K
- Bioventus LLC$44K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,05031%
- Travel & lodging$11,97741%
- Food & beverage$8,27028%
- Education$990%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Theragen, Inc. | 7 | $6,901 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 15 | $6,740 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 23 | $4,175 |
| Stryker | 26 | $3,113 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 31 | $3,026 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 6 | $2,387 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $530 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $493 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 2 | $447 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 5 | $252 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $234 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 4 | $204 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $178 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $175 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $164 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 1 | $136 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $74 |
| Amgen | 4 | $68 |
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.
- ActaStim-S$6,880
- MagnetOs$6,332
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,238
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,773
- EXPEDIUM$1,605
- TRIALTIS$1,331
- RISE$335
- CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$335
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$313
- TRITANIUM$306
- CASCADIA$305
- Triton$225
- Blackhawk Cervical Spacer System$222
- Boomerang$222
- Tiger Shark C$222
- Raven Lumbar Plate System$222
- Stratofuse$222
- GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$182
- NAVIGATOR$182
- YUKON$182
How this compares
$29,396 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 51 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Tennessee.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 45 | $437 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 50 | $336 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 53 | $305 |
| Methylprednisolone | 34 | $213 |
| Pregabalin | 19 | $208 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 19 | $184 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 16 | $147 |
| Methocarbamol | 19 | $121 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 21 | $84 |
| Meloxicam | 20 | $47 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 25 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Nashville
- Lawrence BabatNashville$928K
- Raymond GardockiNashville$666K
- Colin CrosbyNashville$134K
- Morgan LorioNashville$56K
- Byron StephensNashville$20K
- Daniel KiridlyNashville$14K
- Christopher KauffmanNashville$12K
- Amir AbtahiNashville$8K
- Melvin LawNashville$6K
- Elliott KimNashville$5K
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.