Orthopedic Surgery in Tennessee
8 providers, $1,822 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
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 orthopedic surgery clinicians in Tennessee
Across 8 orthopedic surgery clinicians in Tennessee who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $742,401 in total — an average of $92,800 each, of which $89,828 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
- 1Eric ClarkeChattanooga$1,822
- 2Lloyd BrownWinchester$0
- 3Charles HeffingtonHohenwald$0
- 4John JanovichCovington$0
- 5Lawrence SchraderCordova$0
- 6William DevriesClarksville$0
- 7Manish SethiNashville$0
- 8Rachael ClarkColumbia$0