Bernadette Hee, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Cookeville, TNNPI 1902839806
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 162 payments — averaging $17.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$512
- AstraZeneca$437
- GSK$373
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$238
- Novo Nordisk$206
- Insmed, Inc.$180
- plus $907 from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,72395%
- Education$1295%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 24 | $512 |
| AstraZeneca | 20 | $437 |
| GSK | 30 | $373 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 16 | $238 |
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $206 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 11 | $180 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 8 | $174 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $82 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $79 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 4 | $65 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 4 | $52 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $51 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $51 |
| Novartis | 3 | $47 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 4 | $47 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Amgen | 2 | $35 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $21 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $17 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bayer | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Circassia Inc. | 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.
- SYMBICORT$173
- FARXIGA$173
- BEVESPI AEROSPHERE$173
- FASENRA$173
How this compares
$2,852 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 339 pulmonary disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OfevNintedanib Esylate | 45 | $592,100 |
| Prolastin CAlpha-1-Proteinase Inhibitor | 12 | $137,299 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 153 | $132,173 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 42 | $34,051 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 34 | $25,307 |
| Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate | 35 | $9,522 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 15 | $7,680 |
| EliquisApixaban | 12 | $7,009 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 11 | $6,149 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 143 | $5,665 |
| Pulmicort FlexhalerBudesonide | 12 | $3,121 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 11 | $2,760 |
| Roflumilast | 26 | $2,726 |
| Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 24 | $1,932 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 42 | $1,687 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimOfev, Stiolto Respimat | $512 | $598,24956 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta | $373 | $174,682237 claims |
| Grifols USA, LLCProlastin C | $174 | $137,29912 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Pulmicort Flexhaler | $437 | $37,17254 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $51 | $7,00912 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 40th percentile of 339 pulmonary disease providers in Tennessee.
Other pulmonary disease in Cookeville
- Fabien MaldonadoNashville$2.5M
- Aaron MilstoneFranklin$2.4M
- John SwisherKnoxville$2.3M
- James TolleNashville$2.3M
- Lisa LancasterNashville$1.6M
- Ivan RobbinsNashville$1.3M
- Clyde SouthwellHendersonville$801K
- Krishnendu BhadraChattanooga$631K
- Eric WeaverKnoxville$492K
- Rajiv DhandKnoxville$426K
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.