services here, what do people go in for?
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Surgical center in Knoxville, TN
4.7 · 31 reviewsOpens Wednesday at 8 AMOpens Wednesday at 8 AM
The physicians of Premier Surgical Associates have been providing excellent surgical care for patients in Knoxville and East Tennessee for more than 30 years. Our skilled surgeons are board-certified and fellowship trained and experienced in a variety of general, vascular, bariatric, surgical oncology and plastic surgery procedures. We are pleased to offer patients exceptional and affordable, same-day surgical care through the Premier Surgery Center. Our friendly staff are dedicated to providing an outstanding experience that includes easier access, a more comfortable and recovery, and less paperwork and stress than a comparable hospital surgery.
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What Premier Surgery offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
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No code detected[Photo 4]When it's quiet, where to park, and what's nearby.
Waffle House is a 3 minute walk for breakfast. Wasabi Japanese Steakhouse is a 5 minute walk for food.
Nearby places from Google Maps, read Sep 18, 2026.
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
What reviews, press and directories say about Premier Surgery.
4.7from 31 reviews on Google
Premier Surgery Center stands out for its personalized care and efficient procedures, making surgeries feel less stressful for patients. Patients describe Premier Surgery Center as a place where they felt cared for and accommodated, especially during stressful surgical experiences. Many reviewers highlighted the attentive staff, including nurses like Bethany and doctors like Dr. Nechtman and Dr. Weast, who provided excellent care and communication throughout their procedures.
The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.
Signal and how much it countsPremier Surgery
Every business is scored the same way, and nobody can pay for a better score.
Premier Surgery, as AI sees it. Blue signals help Premier Surgery, and red ones hold it back.
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The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about Premier Surgery. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · Surgical centers in Knoxville, TN · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated July 16, 2026.
Published July 16, 2026 · Updated July 16, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
Premier Surgery Center is a surgical center in Knoxville, TN. Its AI Score is 52 of 100, which is fair.
What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Surgical center |
| Address | 6408 Papermill Dr NW Ste 150, Knoxville, TN 37919, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 8 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (865) 306-5775 |
| Rating | 4.7 across 31 reviews on Google |
| Updated | July 16, 2026 |
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location info | Address | 6408 Papermill Dr NW Ste 150, Knoxville, TN 37919, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | The physicians of Premier Surgical Associates have been providing excellent surgical care for patients in Knoxville and East Tennessee for more than 30 years. Our skilled surgeons are board-certified and fellowship trained and experienced in a variety of general, vascular, bariatric, surgical oncology and plastic surgery procedures. We are pleased to offer patients exceptional and affordable, same-day surgical care through the Premier Surgery Center. Our friendly staff are dedicated to providing an outstanding experience that includes easier access, a more comfortable and recovery, and less paperwork and stress than a comparable hospital surgery. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Premier Surgery Center | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (865) 306-5775 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Bariatric surgery | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | General surgery | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Plastic surgery | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Same-day surgical care | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Surgical oncology | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Vascular surgery | AI guess | |
| Links | https://facebook.com/premiersurgical | AI guess | Our record | |
| Links | Website | https://www.premiersurgicalsurgerycenter.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
Address: 6408 Papermill Dr NW Ste 150, Knoxville, TN 37919, USA. Phone: (865) 306-5775. Hours: Mon to Fri 8 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)
From Google Business Profile: "The physicians of Premier Surgical Associates have been providing excellent surgical care for patients in Knoxville and East Tennessee for more than 30 years. Our skilled surgeons are board-certified and fellowship trained and experienced in a variety of general, vascular, bariatric, surgical oncology and plastic surgery procedures. We are pleased to offer patients exceptional and affordable, same-day surgical care through the Premier Surgery Center. Our friendly staff are dedicated to providing an outstanding experience that includes easier access, a more comfortable and recovery, and less paperwork and stress than a comparable hospital surgery."
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Waffle House | Breakfast restaurant | 3 min walk |
| Wasabi Japanese Steakhouse | Restaurant | 5 min walk |
| Wingstop | Chicken wings restaurant | 6 min walk |
| Aubrey's Papermill | Restaurant | 6 min walk |
| Tropical Smoothie Cafe | Juice shop | 6 min walk |
| Calhoun's | Barbecue restaurant | 6 min walk |
4.7 average across 31 reviews: Google 31. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.)
Premier Surgery Center stands out for its personalized care and efficient procedures, making surgeries feel less stressful for patients. (AI guess, from 31 reviews.)
We ask Perplexity, Gemini and ChatGPT about Premier Surgery. These are the answers that don’t match this page.
Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 23, 2026. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026.
| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
|---|---|---|
| Address | Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 23, 2026: 7 Middlebrook Surgery Center | 6408 Papermill Dr NW Ste 150, Knoxville, TN 37919, USA |
It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Knoxville surgical centers run 23 to 52. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Premier Surgery scores 52. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Premier Surgery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 50 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Fair |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 33 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 77 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 50 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 84 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 76 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 57 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |
Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology
How AI decides what to say about a surgical center: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premier Surgery Center | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.premiersurgicalsurgerycenter.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Knoxville, Tennessee | City | #city | City Premier Surgery is in | |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the surgical centers in Knoxville, linked to the lists and towns around it.
This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.
Sent before the page. They tell crawlers the canonical address and that a plain markdown copy exists.
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# Premier Surgery Center, Knoxville TN: Reviews Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/tn/knoxville/premier-surgery-center-knoxville-tn. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-07-16. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/tn/knoxville/premier-surgery-center-knoxville-tn ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short Premier Surgery Center is a surgical center in Knoxville, TN. Its AI Score is 52 of 100, which is fair. What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Surgical center | | Address | 6408 Papermill Dr NW Ste 150, Knoxville, TN 37919, USA | | Hours | Mon to Fri 8 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun | | Phone | (865) 306-5775 | | Rating | 4.7 across 31 reviews on Google | | Updated | July 16, 2026 | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 6408 Papermill Dr NW Ste 150, Knoxville, TN 37919, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Description | The physicians of Premier Surgical Associates have been providing excellent surgical care for patients in Knoxville and East Tennessee for more than 30 years. Our skilled surgeons are board-certified and fellowship trained and experienced in a variety of general, vascular, bariatric, surgical oncology and plastic surgery procedures. We are pleased to offer patients exceptional and affordable, same-day surgical care through the Premier Surgery Center. Our friendly staff are dedicated to providing an outstanding experience that includes easier access, a more comfortable and recovery, and less paperwork and stress than a comparable hospital surgery. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Name | Premier Surgery Center | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Phone | (865) 306-5775 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Services | Service | Bariatric surgery | AI guess | | | Services | Service | General surgery | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Plastic surgery | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Same-day surgical care | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Surgical oncology | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Vascular surgery | AI guess | | | Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/premiersurgical | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | https://www.premiersurgicalsurgerycenter.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | ## Services and prices Add your services so AI can say what you offer ### Known for Share your review link so AI can say what you're known for ## The team Add your team so AI can name who works here ## Visiting Premier Surgery Address: 6408 Papermill Dr NW Ste 150, Knoxville, TN 37919, USA. Phone: (865) 306-5775. Hours: Mon to Fri 8 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile From Google Business Profile: "The physicians of Premier Surgical Associates have been providing excellent surgical care for patients in Knoxville and East Tennessee for more than 30 years. Our skilled surgeons are board-certified and fellowship trained and experienced in a variety of general, vascular, bariatric, surgical oncology and plastic surgery procedures. We are pleased to offer patients exceptional and affordable, same-day surgical care through the Premier Surgery Center. Our friendly staff are dedicated to providing an outstanding experience that includes easier access, a more comfortable and recovery, and less paperwork and stress than a comparable hospital surgery." ### Parking and getting in Add your parking so AI can tell people where to park Add how to find your door so AI can walk people in ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Waffle House | Breakfast restaurant | 3 min walk | | Wasabi Japanese Steakhouse | Restaurant | 5 min walk | | Wingstop | Chicken wings restaurant | 6 min walk | | Aubrey's Papermill | Restaurant | 6 min walk | | Tropical Smoothie Cafe | Juice shop | 6 min walk | | Calhoun's | Barbecue restaurant | 6 min walk | ## Reputation 4.7 average across 31 reviews: Google 31. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.) Premier Surgery Center stands out for its personalized care and efficient procedures, making surgeries feel less stressful for patients. (AI guess, from 31 reviews.) ### What people like - Individual attention from staff ### What people do not like - Discharge process for last patients of the day - Appointment cancellations without consultation ### Press Add a press story so AI can say who's written about you ### Awards Add an award so AI can name it ### Directories Get listed in directories so AI can tell you're real ## Questions people ask ### walk ins, or is it booked solid ### do they shut Saturdays ### services here, what do people go in for? ### first visit here, what do I need to bring? ### what else is on Papermill around Premier Surgery? ### picking between the two, is Knoxville Orthopaedic the safer bet? ### points or member pricing at Premier Surgery, worth signing up? ### bad experiences at Premier Surgery, anyone? ### people keep recommending Premier Surgery, what for? ### prices round here, anyone got a number ### last update from here was when? ### parking at Premier Surgery, where does everyone put the car? ### budget options in Knoxville, what is decent ### anyone actually happy with this place? ### Booking here, how does it work? ### opening hours at Premier Surgery in Knoxville, what are they these days? ### best surgical center in Knoxville ## What AI gets wrong about Premier Surgery We ask Perplexity, Gemini and ChatGPT about Premier Surgery. These are the answers that don’t match this page. Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 23, 2026. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026. | Fact | What AI says | What this page says | | --- | --- | --- | | Address | Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 23, 2026: 7 Middlebrook Surgery Center | 6408 Papermill Dr NW Ste 150, Knoxville, TN 37919, USA | ## The AI Score: 52 of 100 It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Knoxville surgical centers run 23 to 52. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Premier Surgery scores 52. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Premier Surgery | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 50 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Fair | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 33 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor | | Reviews & response | 12 | 77 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 50 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 84 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 76 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 57 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology How AI decides what to say about a surgical center: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Premier Surgery | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Premier Surgery Center | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.premiersurgicalsurgerycenter.com/ | Subject of this page | | Knoxville, Tennessee | City | #city | | City Premier Surgery is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the surgical centers in Knoxville, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best surgical centers in Knoxville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tn/knoxville/surgical-center - Best businesses in Knoxville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tn/knoxville ### Nearby - /nashville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tn/nashville - /kingsport: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tn/kingsport - /memphis: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tn/memphis - /crossville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tn/crossville ### Every list - Every leaderboard in Tennessee: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tn ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJY92B_8U8XIgRl974B3qyd1w (accessed Jul 16, 2026) - [2] AI engine output: Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 23, 2026; ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
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<h2>Premier Surgery Center, Knoxville TN: Reviews</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated July 16, 2026.</p>
<p>Published July 16, 2026 · Updated July 16, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
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<h3>In short</h3>
<p>Premier Surgery Center is a surgical center in Knoxville, TN. Its AI Score is 52 of 100, which is fair.</p>
<p>What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-key-facts">
<h3>Key facts</h3>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Type</td><td>Surgical center</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>6408 Papermill Dr NW Ste 150, Knoxville, TN 37919, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Fri 8 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(865) 306-5775</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.7 across 31 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Updated</td><td>July 16, 2026</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-all-the-details">
<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>6408 Papermill Dr NW Ste 150, Knoxville, TN 37919, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>The physicians of Premier Surgical Associates have been providing excellent surgical care for patients in Knoxville and East Tennessee for more than 30 years. Our skilled surgeons are board-certified and fellowship trained and experienced in a variety of general, vascular, bariatric, surgical oncology and plastic surgery procedures. We are pleased to offer patients exceptional and affordable, same-day surgical care through the Premier Surgery Center. Our friendly staff are dedicated to providing an outstanding experience that includes easier access, a more comfortable and recovery, and less paperwork and stress than a comparable hospital surgery.</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Fri 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM · Sat to Sun Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>Premier Surgery Center</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(865) 306-5775</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>8:00 AM to 4:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>8:00 AM to 4:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>8:00 AM to 4:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>8:00 AM to 4:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>8:00 AM to 4:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Bariatric surgery</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>General surgery</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Plastic surgery</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Same-day surgical care</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Surgical oncology</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Vascular surgery</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Facebook</td><td>https://facebook.com/premiersurgical</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Our record</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>https://www.premiersurgicalsurgerycenter.com/</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
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</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-services-and-prices">
<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<h4>Known for</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
</section>
<section id="ai-visiting-premier-surgery">
<h3>Visiting Premier Surgery</h3>
<p>Address: 6408 Papermill Dr NW Ste 150, Knoxville, TN 37919, USA. Phone: (865) 306-5775. Hours: Mon to Fri 8 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>From Google Business Profile: "The physicians of Premier Surgical Associates have been providing excellent surgical care for patients in Knoxville and East Tennessee for more than 30 years. Our skilled surgeons are board-certified and fellowship trained and experienced in a variety of general, vascular, bariatric, surgical oncology and plastic surgery procedures. We are pleased to offer patients exceptional and affordable, same-day surgical care through the Premier Surgery Center. Our friendly staff are dedicated to providing an outstanding experience that includes easier access, a more comfortable and recovery, and less paperwork and stress than a comparable hospital surgery."</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Waffle House</td><td>Breakfast restaurant</td><td>3 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Wasabi Japanese Steakhouse</td><td>Restaurant</td><td>5 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Wingstop</td><td>Chicken wings restaurant</td><td>6 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Aubrey's Papermill</td><td>Restaurant</td><td>6 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tropical Smoothie Cafe</td><td>Juice shop</td><td>6 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Calhoun's</td><td>Barbecue restaurant</td><td>6 min walk</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.7 average across 31 reviews: Google 31. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.)</p>
<p>Premier Surgery Center stands out for its personalized care and efficient procedures, making surgeries feel less stressful for patients. (AI guess, from 31 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Individual attention from staff</li>
</ul>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Discharge process for last patients of the day</li>
<li>Appointment cancellations without consultation</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<h4>Directories</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>walk ins, or is it booked solid</h4>
<h4>do they shut Saturdays</h4>
<h4>services here, what do people go in for?</h4>
<h4>first visit here, what do I need to bring?</h4>
<h4>what else is on Papermill around Premier Surgery?</h4>
<h4>picking between the two, is Knoxville Orthopaedic the safer bet?</h4>
<h4>points or member pricing at Premier Surgery, worth signing up?</h4>
<h4>bad experiences at Premier Surgery, anyone?</h4>
<h4>people keep recommending Premier Surgery, what for?</h4>
<h4>prices round here, anyone got a number</h4>
<h4>last update from here was when?</h4>
<h4>parking at Premier Surgery, where does everyone put the car?</h4>
<h4>budget options in Knoxville, what is decent</h4>
<h4>anyone actually happy with this place?</h4>
<h4>Booking here, how does it work?</h4>
<h4>opening hours at Premier Surgery in Knoxville, what are they these days?</h4>
<h4>best surgical center in Knoxville</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-what-ai-gets-wrong">
<h3>What AI gets wrong about Premier Surgery</h3>
<p>We ask Perplexity, Gemini and ChatGPT about Premier Surgery. These are the answers that don’t match this page.</p>
<p>Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 23, 2026. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">What AI says</th><th scope="col">What this page says</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 23, 2026: 7 Middlebrook Surgery Center</td><td>6408 Papermill Dr NW Ste 150, Knoxville, TN 37919, USA</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 52 of 100</h3>
<p>It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Knoxville surgical centers run 23 to 52. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Premier Surgery scores 52. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">Premier Surgery</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>50</td><td>Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>41</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>33</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>77</td><td>The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>50</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>84</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td>76</td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>57</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
<p>How AI decides what to say about a surgical center: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-entity-map">
<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to Premier Surgery</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Premier Surgery Center</td><td>LocalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>https://www.premiersurgicalsurgerycenter.com/</td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Knoxville, Tennessee</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td></td><td>City Premier Surgery is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-topical-map">
<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the surgical centers in Knoxville, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best surgical centers in Knoxville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tn/knoxville/surgical-center</li>
<li>Best businesses in Knoxville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tn/knoxville</li>
</ul>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/nashville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tn/nashville</li>
<li>/kingsport: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tn/kingsport</li>
<li>/memphis: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tn/memphis</li>
<li>/crossville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tn/crossville</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in Tennessee: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tn</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-references">
<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJY92B_8U8XIgRl974B3qyd1w (accessed Jul 16, 2026)</li>
<li>[2] AI engine output: Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 23, 2026; ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)</li>
</ul>
</section>
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</html>This is the evidence for every fact on this page, across Locals, Services, Team, Visit, Reputation and Updates. Each reference names the fact, the source, what kind of source it is, and the date it was checked, with a link and an archived copy so anyone can verify it. Visitor references are dated firsthand accounts. AI guesses record what an AI engine said on that date, not what is true.