Sara Soule, MD
Surgery · Memphis, TNNPI 1477819811
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $10,089 of the $16,242 with a category attached, or 62.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 78.6% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,630 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $16 in 2025.
Across 52 payments — averaging $312.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$13K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$315
- Johnson & Johnson$166
- Davol Inc.$106
- plus $169 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,13725%
- Food & beverage$2,01612%
- Education$10,08962%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 22 | $12,771 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 10 | $1,582 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $1,133 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $315 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $166 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $59 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$12,082
- MATRIXRIB$111
- AdvantageRib$106
- BD MAX$106
How this compares
$16,242 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 516 surgery providers in Tennessee.
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 surgery in Memphis
- Douglas HammondMemphis$83K
- Guy VoellerMemphis$42K
- George WoodmanMemphis$41K
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- Eric WallaceCookeville$529K
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Jaime Ponce-PortugalChattanooga$412K
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$362K
- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
- Joseph BroucekNashville$262K
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.