Samuel Swenson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Oak Ridge, TNNPI 1003378720
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $50,000 of the $57,359 with a category attached, or 87.2%. Medtronic accounts for 88.2% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $54,597 and has fallen 95.3% since, to $2,592 in 2025.
Across 60 payments — averaging $955.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$51K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Synthes GmbH$2K
- Arthrex$864
- Stryker$303
- Johnson & Johnson$283
- plus $921 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$50,00087%
- Travel & lodging$4,7418%
- Food & beverage$2,6195%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 15 | $50,590 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 11 | $2,208 |
| Synthes GmbH | 4 | $2,190 |
| Arthrex | 8 | $864 |
| Stryker | 2 | $303 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $283 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 3 | $215 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $191 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $148 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $114 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $87 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $55 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 1 | $41 |
| MF MED | 1 | $29 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $22 |
| Vertex | 1 | $20 |
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.
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$50,000
- VIPER$1,893
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$295
- GAMMA$158
- T2 ALPHA$158
- SWANSON$158
- VARIAX$158
- Velys$148
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$144
- NAPA$144
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$144
- ATTUNE$121
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$118
- MagnetOs$114
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$105
How this compares
$57,359 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Oak Ridge
- Lawrence BabatNashville$928K
- Raymond GardockiNashville$666K
- Samuel SchroerluckeMemphis$451K
- James JolleyChattanooga$231K
- John BurlesonSmyrna$184K
- Michael McNamaraFranklin$150K
- John KlekampFranklin$148K
- Daniel WellsKnoxville$135K
- Colin CrosbyNashville$134K
- Garrick CasonCleveland$65K
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.