Has Todd Bell, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,496 in general payments to Todd Bell, MD across 9 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Todd Bell, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Todd Bell, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Todd Bell, MD

Sports Medicine · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1952309304

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,496in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $166.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alpha Orthopedic Systems$1K
Stryker$122
Arthrex$39
Johnson & Johnson$35
Zimmer Biomet$16
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$14

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$29620%
Education$1,20080%

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
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	4	$1,272
Stryker	1	$122
Arthrex	1	$39
Johnson & Johnson	1	$35
Zimmer Biomet	1	$16
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$14

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.

BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$122

How this compares

$1,496 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 147 sports medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$184,605

Medicare patients

392

Services billed

7,355

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
EliquisApixaban	38	$8,577
Naloxone Hcl	24	$1,513
Meloxicam	394	$1,161
Diclofenac Sodium	36	$611
Oxaprozin	19	$559
Oxycodone Hcl	104	$288
Gabapentin	93	$161
Methylprednisolone	19	$148
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	28	$140
Hydroxyzine Pamoate	71	$121
Amoxicillin	28	$47
Tamsulosin Hcl	18	$19

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in Chattanooga

Bill SmithChattanooga$298K
Benjamin MillerChattanooga$32K
Brandon CincereChattanooga$22K
Chad SmalleyChattanooga$6K
Jeffrey DlabachCollierville$504K
Jw ByrdNashville$319K
Ian ByramFranklin$278K
Lucas RichieLebanon$159K
Zachary PharrColumbia$75K
Colin LooneyFranklin$68K

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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.

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