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ADAM SHORT

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery

NPI
1538505979
CMS profile
1387477
Location
KNOXVILLE, TN

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General Payments · PY2024 · Entire year

$38,831.76

43 records · 0 disputed

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By nature of payment

PY2024 · entire year · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Travel and Lodging $13,919.54 10
Royalty or License $12,393.50 6
Consulting Fee $11,000.00 6
Food and Beverage $1,518.72 21

By paying entity

PY2024 · entire year · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
VILEX LLC $37,740.43 26
Linvatec Corporation $228.12 2
Stryker Corporation $199.86 2
Trilliant Surgical LLC. $152.28 1
Anika Therapeutics, Inc. $136.01 1
EXACTECH, INC. $98.37 1
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $96.20 4
Ethicon US, LLC $58.28 1
DJO, LLC $54.74 2
MedShape, Inc. $33.96 1
Bioventus LLC $17.59 1
Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc $15.92 1

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IndustryPayments · General Payments

ADAM SHORT

NPI 1538505979 · CMS profile ID 1387477

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / Orthopaedic Surgery

KNOXVILLE, TN

A name match is not confirmation of identity. CMS publishes records for different people under similar names; the NPI, specialty, and location shown on this page are the CMS-published fields that distinguish them.

A payment attributed to a provider may have been made to a third party — a hospital, practice, or research institution — rather than paid to the provider personally.

General Payments, PY2024; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types

Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00

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Filtered page: https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1538505979?year=2024&recipient=provider#records-h

CMS source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/e6b17c6a-2534-4207-a4a1-6746a14911ff

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ADAM SHORT, NPI 1538505979, CMS profile ID 1387477. General Payments, PY2024; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types. Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00. Page 1 of 1; records 1–43 of 43 matching records. This page contains 43 records (maximum 50), not the full filtered export. IndustryPayments. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1538505979?year=2024&recipient=provider#records-h. Source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/e6b17c6a-2534-4207-a4a1-6746a14911ff.
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IndustryPayments. (2026). ADAM SHORT, NPI 1538505979, CMS profile ID 1387477. General Payments, PY2024; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types. Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00. Page 1 of 1; records 1–43 of 43 matching records. This page contains 43 records (maximum 50), not the full filtered export. [Filtered data set page]. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1538505979?year=2024&recipient=provider#records-h. Source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/e6b17c6a-2534-4207-a4a1-6746a14911ff.
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ADAM SHORT, NPI 1538505979, CMS profile ID 1387477, IndustryPayments, General Payments, PY2024; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types (Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00). Page 1 of 1; records 1–43 of 43 matching records. This page contains 43 records (maximum 50), not the full filtered export. Source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/e6b17c6a-2534-4207-a4a1-6746a14911ff. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1538505979?year=2024&recipient=provider#records-h.

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General Payments · PY2024 · Physicians and non-physician practitioners · CMS publication 2026-06-30

43 matching records · $38,831.76 reported total · 0 disputed

Nature of payment: All payment types

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Paying entityAmountDate Nature of paymentDispute statusPublication flagsPublished Record IDSource
VILEX LLC $2,698.3912/31/2024 Royalty or License No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916193 CMS
VILEX LLC $147.7512/31/2024 Royalty or License No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916229 CMS
VILEX LLC $5,000.0012/18/2024 Consulting Fee No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916873 CMS
VILEX LLC $3,475.0012/18/2024 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916875 CMS
VILEX LLC $99.2412/18/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916893 CMS
VILEX LLC $66.0012/18/2024 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916895 CMS
Bioventus LLC $17.5912/17/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1137449357 CMS
VILEX LLC $133.3312/06/2024 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154915485 CMS
VILEX LLC $584.3012/06/2024 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154915523 CMS
VILEX LLC $215.2112/06/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154915559 CMS
VILEX LLC $2,097.9612/06/2024 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154915775 CMS
EXACTECH, INC. $98.3711/21/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1151235966 CMS
DJO, LLC $22.7911/15/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154738162 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $16.3911/13/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: CHANGED
06/30/2026 1149571449 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $20.0411/09/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: CHANGED
06/30/2026 1149571451 CMS
VILEX LLC $2,764.4010/09/2024 Royalty or License No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916109 CMS
VILEX LLC $219.7510/09/2024 Royalty or License No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916149 CMS
VILEX LLC $2,000.0010/01/2024 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916705 CMS
VILEX LLC $2,000.0010/01/2024 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916713 CMS
VILEX LLC $2,000.0010/01/2024 Consulting Fee No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916719 CMS
VILEX LLC $2,000.0010/01/2024 Consulting Fee No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916721 CMS
Anika Therapeutics, Inc. $136.0108/21/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1136022391 CMS
Stryker Corporation $71.0508/06/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1119979533 CMS
VILEX LLC $49.9707/19/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154915369 CMS
VILEX LLC $62.9707/19/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154915431 CMS
VILEX LLC $1,046.9507/19/2024 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154915801 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $29.4907/09/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: CHANGED
06/30/2026 1149571453 CMS
VILEX LLC $476.2507/08/2024 Royalty or License No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916053 CMS
VILEX LLC $6,086.9606/30/2024 Royalty or License No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916007 CMS
VILEX LLC $1,000.0006/18/2024 Consulting Fee No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916553 CMS
VILEX LLC $500.0006/18/2024 Consulting Fee No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916563 CMS
Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc $15.9206/12/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1126612543 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $30.2805/22/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: CHANGED
06/30/2026 1149571455 CMS
Linvatec Corporation $117.6305/17/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1147088518 CMS
MedShape, Inc. $33.9604/19/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154731027 CMS
DJO, LLC $31.9504/12/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154738174 CMS
Linvatec Corporation $110.4904/11/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1147088516 CMS
Trilliant Surgical LLC. $152.2803/13/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154735043 CMS
Stryker Corporation $128.8103/05/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1119979531 CMS
Ethicon US, LLC $58.2802/17/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1077645640 CMS
VILEX LLC $2,500.0001/11/2024 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916287 CMS
VILEX LLC $500.0001/11/2024 Consulting Fee No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916291 CMS
VILEX LLC $16.0001/11/2024 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1154916309 CMS

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2019 $6,082.28 33
PY2020 $3,618.64 28
PY2021 $4,504.34 44
PY2022 $2,122.24 33
PY2023 $10,001.88 48
PY2024 $38,831.76 43
PY2025 $21,476.97 25

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
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