Walter Rose, MD
General Surgery · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1689668121
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 54 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 62.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $378 and has fallen 90.7% since, to $35 in 2025.
Across 54 payments — averaging $35.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Medtronic$326
- Smith+Nephew$154
- Lifenet Health$60
- Johnson & Johnson$56
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$50
- plus $72 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,893100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 29 | $1,175 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $326 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $154 |
| Lifenet Health | 4 | $60 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $56 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $50 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $14 |
| Convatec 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.
- ProGrip$225
- Da Vinci Surgical System$105
How this compares
$1,893 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 27 general 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 43 | $116 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 13 | $37 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other general surgery in Chattanooga
- Charles BriceChattanooga$0
- Kenneth TozerMilan$47K
- Jeffrey McCarterCookeville$23K
- Mark SandersSpringfield$15K
- Jeffrey MooreCookeville$14K
- Paul PasarillaMurfreesboro$6K
- Panagiotis DrakosGreeneville$4K
- Scott CopelandCookeville$2K
- Jonathan CohenNashville$1K
- Henry NelsonKnoxville$193
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.