Carlina Pendon
Family · East Ridge, TNNPI 1831150549
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 34 payments — averaging $29.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$212
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$148
- Johnson & Johnson$123
- Novartis$92
- AstraZeneca$62
- Lilly USA, LLC$52
- plus $299 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$987100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $212 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 7 | $148 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $123 |
| Novartis | 4 | $92 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $62 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $52 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 2 | $47 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $42 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $15 |
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
$987 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 6,706 family 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 | 51 | $25,065 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 44 | $17,272 |
| Lubiprostone | 11 | $2,176 |
| Rivastigmine | 12 | $2,064 |
| Autoshield Duo Pen NeedlePen Needle,dual Safety,diabetc | 15 | $1,976 |
| Gabapentin | 115 | $1,686 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 39 | $1,491 |
| Carbidopa-Levodopa ErCarbidopa/Levodopa | 11 | $1,435 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 42 | $1,259 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 101 | $1,042 |
| Nystatin | 24 | $1,008 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 49 | $950 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 66 | $831 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 58 | $774 |
| Mirtazapine | 24 | $747 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in East Ridge
- Stacy BrownMt Juliet$719K
- Dana WebberKnoxville$499K
- Brandy BiedermanHixson$448K
- Cynthia MillerMurfreesboro$384K
- Tamera ThoenerNashville$254K
- April SwonerHermitage$246K
- Jennifer WilliamsNashville$213K
- Chantil JeffreysGermantown$195K
- Laura PorchCordova$148K
- Lori LankfordNashville$148K
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.