Taylor Dennison, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Cookeville, TNNPI 1457622631
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $73,497 of the $86,261 with a category attached, or 85.2%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 87.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $37,260 and has fallen 85.1% since, to $5,539 in 2025. 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 155 payments — averaging $556.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$75K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$4K
- Zimmer Biomet$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- Wardlow Enterprises$148
- Stryker$147
- plus $173 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$73,49785%
- Travel & lodging$8,28010%
- Food & beverage$4,4855%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 61 | $75,432 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 3 | $3,871 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 35 | $3,660 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 47 | $2,830 |
| Wardlow Enterprises | 1 | $148 |
| Stryker | 3 | $147 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $94 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $8 |
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
$86,261 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 182 | $1,238 |
| Tranexamic Acid | 76 | $1,052 |
| Celecoxib | 12 | $558 |
| Meloxicam | 288 | $555 |
| Cefadroxil | 48 | $544 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 129 | $368 |
| Pregabalin | 64 | $234 |
| Amoxicillin | 186 | $173 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $108 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 33 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Cookeville
- Paul BradyKnoxville$20M
- Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
- Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
- Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M
- Alton HunterColumbia$820K
- Jefferson MorrisonNashville$678K
- Michael BeebeMemphis$626K
- Gregory PolkowskiNashville$526K
- Matthew WillisNashville$498K
- Michael ChristieNashville$474K
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.