Steven Hopkins, MD
Vascular Surgery · Johnson City, TNNPI 1760471056
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,861 of the $3,684 with a category attached, or 77.6%. It is spread thinly across 34 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,361 and has fallen 85.1% since, to $203 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $5,973.
Across 116 payments — averaging $31.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Medical LLC$527
- GE HealthCare$460
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$444
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$396
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$212
- AstraZeneca$200
- plus $1K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$77821%
- Food & beverage$2,86178%
- Education$461%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Medical LLC | 7 | $527 |
| GE HealthCare | 2 | $460 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 7 | $444 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 5 | $396 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 13 | $212 |
| AstraZeneca | 17 | $200 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $178 |
| Abbott | 2 | $175 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 6 | $137 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $116 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $90 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $84 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $75 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 3 | $68 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 6 | $50 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $49 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $45 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $31 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $28 |
| Novartis | 1 | $25 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $22 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $12 |
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.
How this compares
$3,684 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 117 vascular 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 | 138 | $1,028 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Johnson City
- Heesuk YoonJohnson City$95K
- Luke ErdoesJohnson City$7K
- Daniel ClairNashville$993K
- Anton Dias PereraGermantown$832K
- Bryan FisherHendersonville$417K
- Christopher LesarChattanooga$311K
- Billy KimMount Juliet$140K
- William HarrisChattanooga$122K
- Mark FugateChattanooga$100K
- Scott StevensKnoxville$53K
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.