William Ballard, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1992701999
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by entertainment: $1,501 of the $2,009 with a category attached, or 74.8%. Deroyal Industries, Inc. accounts for 80.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $4,017.
Across 14 payments — averaging $143.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Deroyal Industries, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$96
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$93
- Stryker$86
- Johnson & Johnson$64
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$38
- plus $14 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$50725%
- Entertainment$1,50175%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Deroyal Industries, Inc. | 3 | $1,618 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $96 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Stryker | 2 | $86 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $64 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$2,009 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Naloxone Hcl | 150 | $9,899 |
| Celecoxib | 253 | $2,872 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 283 | $1,536 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 172 | $1,364 |
| Meloxicam | 458 | $1,354 |
| Amoxicillin | 980 | $1,323 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 41 | $1,140 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 58 | $792 |
| Methocarbamol | 153 | $630 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 53 | $570 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 59 | $561 |
| Gabapentin | 63 | $464 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 170 | $347 |
| Cefadroxil | 31 | $256 |
| Methylprednisolone | 36 | $255 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Chattanooga
- Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
- Scott SteinmannChattanooga$209K
- Matthew BernardChattanooga$136K
- Dirk KinerChattanooga$109K
- Warren GardnerChattanooga$80K
- Paul BradyKnoxville$20M
- Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
- Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M
- Alton HunterColumbia$820K
- Jefferson MorrisonNashville$678K
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.