Wade Gobbell, MD
Sports Medicine · Knoxville, TNNPI 1073040911
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $19,000 of the $29,479 with a category attached, or 64.5%. Arthrex accounts for 69.8% of it on its own, with 28 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $20,945 and has fallen 87.5% since, to $2,616 in 2025. Among sports medicine 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 143 payments — averaging $206.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$21K
- Stryker$3K
- Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Smith+Nephew$674
- Johnson & Johnson$532
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$19,00064%
- Travel & lodging$3,48412%
- Food & beverage$5,61219%
- Education$1,3835%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 30 | $20,589 |
| Stryker | 26 | $2,576 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 17 | $1,457 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $1,414 |
| Smith+Nephew | 12 | $674 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $532 |
| Vericel Corporation | 4 | $273 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $273 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $256 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 2 | $216 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $174 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $139 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $126 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $100 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $97 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $88 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $83 |
| Vertex | 4 | $74 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $46 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 1 | $17 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- MAKOPLASTY$1,613
- 1788$144
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$133
- T2$128
- Persona$122
- NA$122
- ATTUNE$120
- MACI$117
- SkinTE$116
- AETOS Shoulder System$114
- TISSEEL$113
- AXSOS$110
- ROSA$109
- PREVENA$107
- VAC VERAFLO$107
How this compares
$29,479 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 147 sports medicine 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 | 47 | $177 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $148 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 20 | $138 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 25 | $137 |
| Methylprednisolone | 16 | $102 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 30 | $88 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $63 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 19 | $35 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 12 | $22 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Knoxville
- Andrew HoltKnoxville$46K
- Bradley JaquithKnoxville$19K
- Michael KernKnoxville$10K
- Jon MacnaughtonKnoxville$8K
- Lucianne OlewinskiKnoxville$7K
- Matthew RappeKnoxville$5K
- Jeffrey DlabachCollierville$504K
- Ian ByramFranklin$252K
- Jw ByrdNashville$248K
- Lucas RichieLebanon$159K
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.