Camille Sommer, MD
Gastroenterology · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1417195207
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 397 payments — averaging $21.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- UCB, Inc.$1K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$502
- Johnson & Johnson$390
- Pfizer$331
- plus $2K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,18014%
- Food & beverage$7,14586%
- Education$280%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 129 | $2,651 |
| UCB, Inc. | 16 | $1,406 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 82 | $1,175 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 29 | $502 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 30 | $390 |
| Pfizer | 22 | $331 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 15 | $287 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 5 | $181 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $178 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 5 | $177 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 7 | $145 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $95 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 5 | $72 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 2 | $70 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 4 | $56 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $39 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $36 |
| Amgen | 2 | $35 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $28 |
| Romark Laboratories, LC | 1 | $25 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Merck | 2 | $25 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $23 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $20 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $20 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Gilead | 1 | $18 |
| BD | 1 | $16 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $15 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 2 | $14 |
| Redhill Biopharma 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.
How this compares
$8,353 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 336 gastroenterology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LinzessLinaclotide | 51 | $40,303 |
| IbsrelaTenapanor Hcl | 13 | $20,864 |
| ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac | 71 | $11,976 |
| Mesalamine ErMesalamine | 20 | $8,562 |
| Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole | 28 | $6,529 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 46 | $5,319 |
| Lubiprostone | 25 | $3,838 |
| Colestipol Hcl | 52 | $3,388 |
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 47 | $2,741 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 222 | $2,636 |
| Omeprazole | 97 | $1,199 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 47 | $927 |
| Azathioprine | 14 | $872 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 32 | $826 |
| Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 51 | $689 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLinzess | $2,651 | $40,30351 claims |
| Ardelyx, Inc.Ibsrela | $181 | $20,86413 claims |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.Clenpiq | $62 | $11,97671 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 70th percentile of 336 gastroenterology providers in Tennessee.
Other gastroenterology in Chattanooga
- Richard SadowitzChattanooga$128K
- Richard KrauseChattanooga$32K
- Henry PaikChattanooga$19K
- Sumeet BhushanChattanooga$18K
- Ziad YounesGermantown$15.6M
- Robert HerringNashville$3.2M
- Dawn Borromeo BeaulieuNashville$2.1M
- David SchwartzNashville$1.4M
- Kevin FinneganHermitage$1.4M
- Baldeep PablaNashville$1.2M
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.