Sidney Collins, MD
Surgery · Bristol, TNNPI 1083624365
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 72 payments — averaging $48.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Medtronic$388
- Polymedics Innovations Inc.$319
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$154
- Davol Inc.$100
- Conmed Corporation$90
- plus $776 from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$170%
- Travel & lodging$1,26136%
- Food & beverage$2,15761%
- Education$913%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 11 | $1,698 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $388 |
| Polymedics Innovations Inc. | 4 | $319 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $154 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $100 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $90 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $84 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $52 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $31 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $30 |
| Mesh Suture Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Leica Microsystems Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $25 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Stryker | 1 | $14 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $14 |
| Clinical Technology, Inc | 1 | $13 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $12 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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$1,242
- PARIETENE DS$276
- ANDEXXA$117
How this compares
$3,526 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 46 | $563 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 27 | $215 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 12 | $123 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 23 | $77 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Bristol
- Paige FurrowBristol$39K
- Benjamin ScharfsteinBristol$30K
- John VanceBristol$20K
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$2.5M
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- Eric WallaceCookeville$529K
- Guy VoellerMemphis$434K
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Jaime Ponce-PortugalChattanooga$412K
- Robert MaxwellChattanooga$393K
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.