Thomas Throckmorton, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Germantown, TNNPI 1740337625
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,319,704 of the $1,730,331 with a category attached, or 76.3%. Exactech, Inc. accounts for 63.8% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $544,268, 8.9 times the $60,868 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 227 payments — averaging $7622.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Exactech, Inc.$1.1M
- Zimmer Biomet$592K
- Responsive Arthroscopy Inc$13K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$11K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$3K
- plus $4K from 9 others
Across 49 payments — averaging $1690.65 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Zimmer Biomet$55K
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$28K
Across 3 payments — averaging $18,291 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Responsive Arthroscopy Inc$55K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,319,70476%
- Consulting fees$328,98719%
- Travel & lodging$38,1062%
- Food & beverage$10,4931%
- Education$33,0402%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Exactech, Inc. | 91 | $1,103,835 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 97 | $591,549 |
| Responsive Arthroscopy Inc | 15 | $12,874 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 5 | $11,331 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $3,510 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 4 | $3,393 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $2,629 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $585 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 2 | $184 |
| Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions | 1 | $150 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $127 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $52 |
| Stryker | 1 | $43 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $38 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
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.
- EQUINOXE$1,102,562
- Comprehensive Glenoid$113,850
- COMPREHENSIVE$70,321
- Osseofit$32,880
- PSI Knee$28,734
- Alliance Glenoid$24,856
- ALLIANCE$14,118
- Responsive Arthroscopy Devices$12,826
- EXPAREL$11,331
- Comprehensive Anatomic$4,250
- Unifi Technology$3,301
- PSI Anatomical Shoulder$2,750
- Hyaff$2,000
- Iovera$1,910
- Zilretta$1,910
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$917
- HYALOFAST$500
- Sidus Stem-Free Shoulder$411
- Taperloc$266
- Stemless Instruments$186
How this compares
$1,730,331 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naproxen | 253 | $1,618 |
| Methylprednisolone | 218 | $1,569 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 98 | $864 |
| Carisoprodol | 95 | $541 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 52 | $467 |
| Gabapentin | 47 | $389 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 32 | $257 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 12 | $53 |
| Amoxicillin | 25 | $45 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $37 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $18 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Germantown
- Chad CampionGermantown$311K
- Thomas RussellGermantown$131K
- Carson RiderGermantown$128K
- Kirk ThompsonGermantown$119K
- Christopher CosgroveGermantown$109K
- Jan SzatkowskiGermantown$103K
- Paul BradyKnoxville$20M
- Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
- Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
- Alton HunterColumbia$820K
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.