Has Scott Standard, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,540 in general payments to Scott Standard, MD across 13 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 Scott Standard, 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 Scott Standard, 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.

Scott Standard, MD

Neurological Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1326018946

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,540in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $118.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$735
Highridge Medical LLC$191
Monteris Medical Corporation$128
Spine Wave, Inc.$120
Synaptive Medical Inc.$107
Johnson & Johnson$104
plus $155 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$865100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Stryker	4	$735
Highridge Medical LLC	2	$191
Monteris Medical Corporation	1	$128
Spine Wave, Inc.	1	$120
Synaptive Medical Inc.	1	$107
Johnson & Johnson	1	$104
EBI, LLC	1	$80
Abbott	1	$60
Medtronic	1	$15

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.

Neuroblate$128
Spinal Implants$120
Biomet SpinalPak Non-invasive Spine Fusion Stimulator System$119
Brightmatter Guide V$107
BRAINLAB$104

How this compares

$1,540 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 156 neurological surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$295,206

Medicare patients

443

Services billed

1,246

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	106	$983
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	49	$735
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	72	$721
Methocarbamol	50	$377
Methylprednisolone	48	$291
Tizanidine Hcl	17	$243
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	21	$232
Oxycodone Hcl	20	$167
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	14	$144
Tramadol Hcl	33	$64
Meloxicam	33	$53
Diazepam	23	$16

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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