Carolyn Lightford
Family Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1801836259
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 219 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $975 and has fallen 85.8% since, to $138 in 2025.
Across 219 payments — averaging $17.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$759
- GSK$720
- Pfizer$358
- Boehringer Ingelheim$312
- Novo Nordisk$280
- Lilly USA, LLC$258
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,916100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 33 | $759 |
| GSK | 34 | $720 |
| Pfizer | 27 | $358 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 19 | $312 |
| Novo Nordisk | 18 | $280 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 19 | $258 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 16 | $247 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 10 | $139 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $125 |
| Merck | 7 | $124 |
| Novartis | 5 | $94 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $94 |
| Bayer | 4 | $77 |
| Cequr Corporation | 2 | $68 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $46 |
| Abbott | 2 | $45 |
| Insulet Corporation | 2 | $39 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $38 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- TRELEGY ELLIPTA$351
- FARXIGA$240
How this compares
$3,916 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.
Other family medicine in Nashville
- Keren HolmesNashville$58K
- Burton SandersNashville$19K
- Julia GomezNashville$18K
- Christopher HoffmanNashville$17K
- John AdewumiNashville$15K
- Kevin DennisFranklin$354K
- Charolette JacksonBartlett$162K
- Kabir Harricharan SinghNewport$49K
- Khaisha GistAntioch$49K
- Jerry PunchKnoxville$45K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.