Warren Gardner, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1831308139
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (42.8%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 60.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $36,743 and has fallen 56.9% since, to $15,852 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery 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 145 payments — averaging $554.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$48K
- Synthes GmbH$30K
- Innovation Technologies Inc$735
- Johnson & Johnson$560
- Smith+Nephew$321
- Stryker$242
- plus $204 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$34,38843%
- Speaking & faculty fees$19,25024%
- Travel & lodging$22,75328%
- Food & beverage$4,0325%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 64 | $48,301 |
| Synthes GmbH | 40 | $30,059 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 5 | $735 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $560 |
| Smith+Nephew | 12 | $321 |
| Stryker | 8 | $242 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $80 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $27 |
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.
- Periprosthetic Fracture$27,508
- TROCH NAIL$6,900
- Anthem$2,010
- Proximal Tibia Plate$1,700
- Clavicular Fracture Fixation$1,259
- CAPTIVATE$999
- Irrisept$735
- Ankle Fracture System$541
- Autobahn$277
- RISE$200
- EXTERNAL FIXATION$122
- Distal Femur Plate$118
- VA-LCP PLATES & SCREWS$116
- TFN ADVANCED$112
- TRIGEN$107
- TRIGEN InterTAN$107
- MAVERICK$107
How this compares
$80,422 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Chattanooga
- Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
- Scott SteinmannChattanooga$209K
- Matthew BernardChattanooga$136K
- Dirk KinerChattanooga$109K
- Paul BradyKnoxville$20M
- Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
- Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M
- Alton HunterColumbia$820K
- Jefferson MorrisonNashville$678K
- Michael BeebeMemphis$626K
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.