Has Amy Dempsey received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,779 in general payments to Amy Dempsey across 750 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Amy Dempsey did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Amy Dempsey come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Amy Dempsey

Pediatrics · Memphis, TNNPI 1619496866

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,779in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 750 payments — averaging $17.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Novartis$1K
UCB, Inc.$1K
AstraZeneca$1K
AbbVie$809
SK Life Science, Inc.$771
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$664
plus $7K from 50 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$12,779100%

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
Novartis	81	$1,255
UCB, Inc.	60	$1,179
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	53	$1,104
AbbVie(2 entities)	63	$809
SK Life Science, Inc.	47	$771
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	67	$664
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	42	$529
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	39	$476
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	18	$433
Livanova USA, Inc.	7	$346
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	20	$344
Argenx US, Inc.	15	$337
EMD Serono, Inc.	15	$336
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	17	$335
Harmony Biosciences LLC	9	$305
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	14	$304
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	25	$297
Amgen	18	$276
Biogen	13	$255
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	9	$254
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$199
Genentech USA, Inc.	10	$171
Corium, LLC	17	$164
Neurelis, Inc.	9	$147
Lilly USA, LLC	8	$134
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	5	$123
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	6	$99
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	6	$95
Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc.	5	$90
Banner Life Sciences, LLC	5	$85
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$73
Lundbeck LLC	3	$62
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$60
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	3	$57
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	2	$45
Sanofi	2	$45
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	2	$44
Pfizer	3	$44
Tris Pharma Inc	3	$42
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$41
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$36
Coopersurgical, Inc.	1	$31
TG Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$31
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	3	$31
CSL Behring	1	$25
NS Pharma, Inc.	1	$25
Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$22
Adlon Therapeutics L.p.	1	$21
Johnson & Johnson	1	$20
Cycle Pharmaceuticals Inc	1	$20
GRT US Holding, Inc.	1	$17
Nevro Corp.	1	$17
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$15
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc	1	$15
Eisai Inc.	1	$13
Avion Pharmaceuticals	1	$13

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.

How this compares

$12,779 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,338 pediatrics providers in Tennessee.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Aripiprazole	12	$545
Lamotrigine	23	$440
Meclizine Hcl	12	$78
Clonidine Hcl	12	$67
Gabapentin	12	$25

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pediatrics in Memphis

Nehali PatelMemphis$1.3M
Jason JohnsonMemphis$131K
Daniel Moreira RidsdaleMemphis$100K
Deena LevineMemphis$85K
William TerrellMemphis$21K
Holly LydigsenMemphis$12K
Jennifer FerreeMemphis$9K
Brittany WilliamsMemphis$9K
Brianna DaleMemphis$6K
Cody McMillanMemphis$4K

See the full list for Tennessee →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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