Has William Kurtz, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $773,618 in general payments to William Kurtz, MD across 160 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 William Kurtz, 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 William Kurtz, 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.

William Kurtz, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Brentwood, TNNPI 1982657276

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $598,164 of the $773,618 with a category attached, or 77.3%. Conformis, Inc. accounts for 67.9% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$773,618in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 160 payments — averaging $4835.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Conformis, Inc.$526K
Restor3d, Inc.$239K
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$4K
Smith+Nephew$3K
Medacta USA, Inc.$899
Stryker$493
plus $555 from 7 others

$104,734in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $2992.39 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Conformis, Inc.$105K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$139,24018%
Consulting fees$598,16477%
Speaking & faculty fees$21,3753%
Travel & lodging$11,2311%
Food & beverage$3,6080%

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
Conformis, Inc.	94	$525,667
Restor3d, Inc.	25	$238,830
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$3,868
Smith+Nephew	13	$3,307
Medacta USA, Inc.	6	$899
Stryker	6	$493
Zimmer Biomet	2	$217
Johnson & Johnson	3	$153
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$46
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$42
Microport Orthopedics Inc	2	$41
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	2	$36
Medtronic	1	$20

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.

iTotal Identity PS$223,538
CONFORMIS HIP SYSTEM$170,273
iTotal Hip$119,526
iTotal Hip Replacement System$117,454
Hip$100,654
iTotal, Identity, Hip$98,624
iTotal, Identity CR$96,139
iTotal Identity Cruciate Retaining Knee Replacement System$46,175
Actera Hip Stem$18,922
Identity Imprint Knee Replacement System$17,671
iTotal PS$16,095
Zilretta$3,850
Identity PS$1,200
Identity CR$1,000
iUni$1,000
Navio Surgical System$829
GMK SPHERE$700
Identity Imprint CR$400
Identity Imprint PS$400
MAKOPLASTY$151

How this compares

$773,618 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 27 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$324,164

Medicare patients

602

Services billed

9,866

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
Celecoxib	67	$1,350
Gabapentin	109	$601
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	53	$596
Meloxicam	226	$508
Doxycycline Hyclate	13	$391
Methylprednisolone	50	$360
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	37	$318
Ibuprofen	29	$176
Tramadol Hcl	45	$132
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	21	$79
Oxycodone Hcl	17	$78
Amoxicillin	30	$45
Prednisone	12	$43

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Brentwood

Cory CalendineFranklin$2.5M
Conrad IvieKnoxville$609K
Brian PerkinsonFranklin$229K
Andrew ShinarNashville$151K
William CarpenterNashville$146K
Mark FreemanChattanooga$84K
Christopher HollandGermantown$71K
Larry JohnsonJackson$55K
Matthew ChristieNashville$47K
Justin KennonKnoxville$43K

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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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