Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.
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Lemuel Dent, DO

Individual provider Surgery Physician · NPI 1235139916

Lemuel Dent, DO practises General Surgery in Nashville, Tennessee. Graduated from Morehouse School of Medicine in 1985, 41 years ago. Practices with Phoebe Physician Group Inc, a 432-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in Georgia and Tennessee.

Years since qualifying
41
Trained at
Morehouse School of Medicine
Licensed in
GA, TN
In the registry since
2005
Specialties on file
3
What do these letters mean?
DO — Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
A fully licensed physician, trained like an MD with additional musculoskeletal training. Equivalent practice rights in all 50 states.

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Practice location Address checks out

1818 Albion St
Nashville, TN 37208-2918
Phone: (615) 341-4000
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Specialties & licences

Trauma Surgery Physician (primary) Taxonomy 2086S0127X · Licence 42773 (TN)
Surgery Physician Taxonomy 208600000X · Licence 045766 (GA)
Surgical Critical Care Physician Taxonomy 2086S0102X · Licence 045766 (GA)

Record details

NPI number1235139916
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials DO
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedJuly 26, 2005
Last updated in NPPESOctober 9, 2019

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyGENERAL SURGERY
Also practisesSURGICAL ONCOLOGY
Medical schoolMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Graduated 1985 (41 years in practice)
Group practice Phoebe Physician Group Inc — 432 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy for acid reflux 16 times · 47th percentile
Colonoscopy 1–10 times
Removal of tissue 1–10 times

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients88
Services billed 149 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age74

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Education $3,000 2 payments · educational material or training, not a fee
Food and Beverage $217 7 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

  • Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital Hospital · Albany, GA

Colleagues at Phoebe Physician Group Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 432 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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