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Orthopaedic Surgery in Tennessee

381 providers, $37,950,552 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $4,017.

Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.

What Medicare pays orthopaedic surgery clinicians in Tennessee

Part B allowed per clinician, 2024
$171,705
Of which, services
$159,716
Clinicians billing Part B
294

Across 294 orthopaedic surgery clinicians in Tennessee who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $50,481,324 in total — an average of $171,705 each, of which $159,716 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.

This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.

Ranked by reported payments

  1. 1Paul BradyKnoxville$20,005,212
  2. 2Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2,469,448
  3. 3Jesse DotyChattanooga$2,255,542
  4. 4Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1,730,331
  5. 5Alton HunterColumbia$820,175
  6. 6Jefferson MorrisonNashville$677,835
  7. 7Michael BeebeMemphis$625,586
  8. 8Gregory PolkowskiNashville$525,584
  9. 9Matthew WillisNashville$497,601
  10. 10Michael ChristieNashville$474,221
  11. 11David DeboerNashville$447,858
  12. 12Rudolph GlattesNashville$443,522
  13. 13Tyler BrolinCollierville$336,180
  14. 14Chad CampionGermantown$311,030
  15. 15Keith NordJackson$286,449
  16. 16John MartinNashville$212,399
  17. 17Scott SteinmannChattanooga$208,752
  18. 18Nicholas StrasserNashville$184,212
  19. 19Paul NaylorKnoxville$183,639
  20. 20Jeffrey HodrickNashville$172,870
  21. 21Brian DierckmanNashville$171,949
  22. 22Stephen EngstromNashville$148,622
  23. 23Matthew BernardChattanooga$135,928
  24. 24Thomas RussellGermantown$130,801
  25. 25Patrick ToyCollierville$130,438
  26. 26Joseph BlytheNashville$129,369
  27. 27Carson RiderGermantown$127,531
  28. 28George HollowayKnoxville$123,989
  29. 29Kirk ThompsonGermantown$119,102
  30. 30Dan SpenglerNashville$115,348
  31. 31Scott MacdonaldJohnson City$114,030
  32. 32Christopher CosgroveGermantown$109,459
  33. 33Dirk KinerChattanooga$108,924
  34. 34Harold CatesKnoxville$106,086
  35. 35Jan SzatkowskiGermantown$103,478
  36. 36Adam ShortKnoxville$86,638
  37. 37Taylor DennisonCookeville$86,261
  38. 38Billy ParsleyGreeneville$83,595
  39. 39Warren GardnerChattanooga$80,422
  40. 40Chris LoftisColumbia$78,311
  41. 41Robert OttoNashville$76,612
  42. 42Bruce MillerKingsport$69,353
  43. 43Jason HutchisonJackson$61,348
  44. 44Lauren NelsonNashville$60,401
  45. 45Brian EdkinKnoxville$59,686
  46. 46John PhillipsBristol$58,211
  47. 47Austin DavidsonKnoxville$56,351
  48. 48Benjamin WeisenthalKnoxville$52,342
  49. 49Colton NortonBartlett$52,059
  50. 50William FergusonMemphis$49,149
  51. 51Matthew AndersonFranklin$47,266
  52. 52Larry WaldropJohnson City$45,283
  53. 53Alan AikenJohnson City$45,022
  54. 54Peter ChangNashville$44,631
  55. 55Michael BarlowNashville$42,248
  56. 56Carl ByrdMorristown$39,869
  57. 57Casey DavidsonFranklin$37,761
  58. 58Lucas BurtonNashville$37,523
  59. 59Jacob WilsonNashville$36,901
  60. 60Sean KaminskyHermitage$36,254
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