Stephen Engstrom, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1750647509
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $114,852 of the $148,622 with a category attached, or 77.3%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 94.0% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $50,542, more than ten times the $4,088 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 150 payments — averaging $990.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$140K
- Insight Medical Systems, Inc.$6K
- Bone Support Inc.$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$979
- Linkbio Corp$670
- Medacta USA, Inc.$200
- plus $199 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$114,85277%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5001%
- Travel & lodging$28,26419%
- Food & beverage$4,0063%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 114 | $139,738 |
| Insight Medical Systems, Inc. | 14 | $5,585 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 2 | $1,250 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 10 | $979 |
| Linkbio Corp | 4 | $670 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $200 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $76 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $45 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 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.
- DJO SURGICAL$237,173
- ARVIS$5,502
- DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$2,458
- DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$1,785
- DJO Surgical FMP Acetabular System$1,500
- DJO Surgical 3DKnee System$1,457
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$1,250
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$341
- ROSA-Knee$265
- GMK SPHERE$136
- Persona$118
How this compares
$148,622 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 381 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 41 | $1,478 |
| Mupirocin | 202 | $1,191 |
| Meloxicam | 72 | $212 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 42 | $195 |
| Methylprednisolone | 17 | $75 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $22 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Nashville
- Jefferson MorrisonNashville$678K
- Gregory PolkowskiNashville$526K
- Matthew WillisNashville$498K
- Michael ChristieNashville$474K
- David DeboerNashville$448K
- Rudolph GlattesNashville$444K
- John MartinNashville$212K
- Nicholas StrasserNashville$184K
- Jeffrey HodrickNashville$173K
- Brian DierckmanNashville$172K
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.