William Polk, MD
Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1356349963
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 43 payments — averaging $126.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Smith+Nephew$242
- Olympus America Inc.$154
- Innovation Technologies Inc$89
- Johnson & Johnson$74
- plus $371 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,00037%
- Travel & lodging$2,07038%
- Food & beverage$1,38025%
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 | 10 | $2,503 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $2,017 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $242 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $154 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 3 | $89 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $74 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $73 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $61 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $38 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Neuros Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Owens & Minor | 1 | $21 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Cagent Vascular Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,459
- DIVERGENCE$2,000
How this compares
$5,450 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 516 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase | 12 | $30,451 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 60 | $169 |
| Metronidazole | 61 | $75 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 61 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieCreon | $61 | $30,45112 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 65th percentile of 516 surgery providers in Tennessee.
Other surgery in Nashville
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- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
- Richard PierceNashville$276K
- Joseph BroucekNashville$262K
- Leigh DagefordeNashville$228K
- Ashok BabuNashville$126K
- Meredith DukeNashville$77K
- Zachary CallahanNashville$65K
- Joseph DelozierNashville$44K
- Matthew SpannNashville$40K
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.