Timothy Fullagar, MD
Neurological Surgery · Johnson City, TNNPI 1629088364
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 351 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 72.6% of it on its own, with 39 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 351 payments — averaging $27.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$7K
- Nevro Corp.$318
- Zimmer Biomet$285
- Johnson & Johnson$237
- Biocomposites Inc$193
- Stryker$187
- plus $1K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$9,626100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 257 | $6,987 |
| Nevro Corp. | 13 | $318 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $285 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 10 | $237 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $193 |
| Stryker | 3 | $187 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 8 | $154 |
| Spinefrontier, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $96 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 4 | $94 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $88 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $69 |
| UCB, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $58 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $55 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 2 | $53 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $35 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $32 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $32 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $30 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 2 | $28 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $20 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $20 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $19 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $17 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $13 |
| Amgen | 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.
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$1,536
- Biomet SpinalPak$268
- Stimulan$193
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$143
- Senza$129
- INCEPTIV$118
- InSpan$100
How this compares
$9,626 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 156 neurological 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.
Other neurological surgery in Johnson City
- Scott DulebohnJohnson City$8K
- Kevin FoleyMemphis$162.4M
- Maurice SmithMemphis$4.4M
- Brian OshaughnessyNashville$2.1M
- Adam ArthurMemphis$1.9M
- Paul ParkMemphis$1.2M
- Daniel HoitMemphis$607K
- David WilesChattanooga$315K
- Chine LoganNashville$309K
- Scott ParkerNashville$255K
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.