Bruce Leforce, MD
Neurology · Knoxville, TNNPI 1790767796
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 17 payments — averaging $41.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eisai Inc.$122
- Amgen$116
- Biogen$110
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$97
- AstraZeneca$79
- Novartis$72
- plus $103 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$699100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Amgen | 1 | $116 |
| Biogen | 2 | $110 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $97 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $79 |
| Novartis | 4 | $72 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $20 |
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
$699 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 361 neurology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Galantamine ErGalantamine Hbr | 276 | $29,248 |
| Rivastigmine | 46 | $12,186 |
| NamzaricMemantine Hcl/Donepezil Hcl | 14 | $11,499 |
| Memantine Hcl | 362 | $10,706 |
| Donepezil Hcl | 605 | $5,404 |
| RivastigmineRivastigmine Tartrate | 28 | $2,219 |
| Galantamine Hbr | 34 | $2,210 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 97 | $1,004 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 116 | $968 |
| Divalproex Sodium | 24 | $543 |
| Citalopram HbrCitalopram Hydrobromide | 76 | $417 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 50 | $350 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 37 | $307 |
| Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa | 25 | $291 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 12 | $291 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurology in Knoxville
- Sibyl WrayKnoxville$21.6M
- Randall TrudellKnoxville$2.8M
- David BrandesKnoxville$418K
- Roberto Fernandez-RomeroKnoxville$321K
- Joseph VaughanKnoxville$179K
- Brian WisemanKnoxville$104K
- Lee SteinCordova$22.6M
- Lora McGillMemphis$7.5M
- Thomas ArnoldCordova$5.5M
- Daniel ClaassenNashville$3.5M
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.