Medical Doctor Program year 2023 Reported 2019–2023 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Rickey Parsons

Orthopaedic Surgery Knoxville, TN Medical Doctor

NPI 1235159591 CMS profile 483905

9430 Park West Blvd Ste 130, Knoxville, TN 37923

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General payments

$8,889

85 records reported · program years 2019–2023

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2023

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2023, Rickey Parsons of Knoxville, TN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,889 across 85 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 67th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2023 General $241 4
2022 General $3,531 32
2021 General $62 1
2020 General $1,827 12
2019 General $3,230 36

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Rickey Parsons
  • Orthopaedic Surgery median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Rickey Parsons were reported at $0. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year Rickey Parsons Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $3,230 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $1,827 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $62 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $3,531 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $241 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $0 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $0 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2023
  1. Arthrex, Inc. $4,620 30 payments
  2. Alpha Orthopedic Systems $3,362 14 payments
  3. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $134 2 payments
  4. Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. $126 10 payments
  5. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $124 1 payment
  6. Flexion Therapeutics, Inc. $102 8 payments
  7. Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC $101 2 payments
  8. Horizon Therapeutics plc $82 7 payments
  9. Amgen Inc. $81 5 payments
  10. Radius Health, Inc. $78 4 payments
  11. Other $79 2 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2023
  1. Travel and Lodging $3,700 8 payments
  2. Education $3,238 4 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $1,952 73 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2023
  1. EUFLEXXA $126 10 payments
  2. Tapestry $124 1 payment
  3. REGENETEN Shoulder $113 1 payment
  4. Zilretta $102 8 payments
  5. SHOULDER IMPLANTS FIBERTAK KNOTLESS $86 5 payments
  6. Prolia $81 5 payments
  7. PENNSAID $70 6 payments
  8. NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS $62 1 payment
  9. EVENITY $45 3 payments
  10. Tymlos $24 1 payment
  11. Other $112 6 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 2 drugs

Part D claims

29

Median for Orthopaedic Surgery: 30

Drug cost

$110

Median for Orthopaedic Surgery: $176

Branded share of claims

0%

Median for Orthopaedic Surgery: 0%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Meloxicam Generic 14 $81
Amoxicillin Generic 15 $29

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 1,233 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopaedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Records

85 reported

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2023

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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