Amberly Ellis, NP
Nurse Practitioner · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1134445968
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 664 payments — averaging $26.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Amgen$2K
- Novartis$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- AstraZeneca$967
- plus $9K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$17,28899%
- Education$1141%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 114 | $1,721 |
| Amgen | 89 | $1,718 |
| Novartis | 106 | $1,584 |
| Medtronic | 45 | $1,319 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 14 | $1,241 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 31 | $967 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 7 | $875 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $755 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 26 | $718 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 25 | $670 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 19 | $572 |
| Novo Nordisk | 18 | $558 |
| Bayer | 15 | $524 |
| Boston Scientific | 15 | $461 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 13 | $429 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 15 | $411 |
| Pfizer | 22 | $390 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 7 | $341 |
| Philips North America LLC | 19 | $322 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 11 | $311 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $225 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $215 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $158 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $145 |
| Stryker | 1 | $144 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $110 |
| Merck | 5 | $83 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $53 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $48 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 2 | $45 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$758
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$540
- Impella$530
- XARELTO$371
- Kerendia$367
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$321
- JARDIANCE$248
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$247
- Ozempic$231
- Repatha$226
- Barostim Neo System$150
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$145
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$145
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$144
- FlowTriever$144
- Resolute$138
- Assure WCD$134
- CARDIOMEMS$133
- UPTRAVI$125
- OPSUMIT$125
How this compares
$17,401 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,662 nurse practitioner providers in Tennessee.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 263 | $277,152 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 138 | $148,766 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 91 | $97,232 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 67 | $71,111 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 68 | $54,234 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 53 | $36,148 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 32 | $29,133 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 28 | $6,208 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 326 | $4,882 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 249 | $3,711 |
| Valsartan | 77 | $3,664 |
| Bumetanide | 60 | $2,585 |
| Carvedilol | 299 | $2,478 |
| Losartan Potassium | 201 | $2,113 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 167 | $1,820 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $390 | $277,152263 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $718 | $148,766138 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta | $967 | $107,260120 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $1,584 | $97,23291 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $670 | $29,13332 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 2,662 nurse practitioner providers in Tennessee.
Other nurse practitioner in Chattanooga
- Cynthia WilsonChattanooga$62K
- Honor HightshueChattanooga$45K
- Amy OttmanChattanooga$32K
- Philip AndrewsChattanooga$18K
- Erin StockwellChattanooga$15K
- Teresa DeeseChattanooga$13K
- Jay PassmoreChattanooga$13K
- Amy HatcherMurfreesboro$1.1M
- Karen RodenKnoxville$265K
- Susan UtleyNashville$194K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.