Courtney Tafesse
Hospitalist · Murfreesboro, TNNPI 1760870265
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $3,400 of the $4,970 with a category attached, or 68.4%. Mimedx Group, Inc. accounts for 68.4% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,079 and has fallen 79.7% since, to $624 in 2025. Among hospitalist clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 86 payments — averaging $57.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$3K
- AbbVie$330
- Bayer$184
- Coopersurgical, Inc.$144
- Organon$110
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$94
- plus $708 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,40068%
- Food & beverage$1,57032%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 8 | $3,400 |
| AbbVie | 14 | $330 |
| Bayer | 9 | $184 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 8 | $144 |
| Organon | 7 | $110 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 5 | $94 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 2 | $92 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 5 | $75 |
| Channel Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $43 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $38 |
| Merck | 2 | $35 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $32 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $30 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $14 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $12 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 1 | $12 |
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.
- BOVINE COLLAGEN$600
How this compares
$4,970 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 349 hospitalist providers in Tennessee.
Other hospitalist in Murfreesboro
- Gerald OnuohaNashville$37K
- Sunil KripalaniNashville$23K
- Ankur SethMemphis$13K
- Eugene ScobeyMemphis$6K
- Monico BanezJackson$6K
- Omar AlsharifKnoxville$6K
- Matthew JosephNashville$5K
- Arnel PaneloNashville$5K
- Ravi MishraNashville$5K
- Lindsay Rumberger-RiveraKnoxville$4K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.