Dallas Wright
Physician Assistant · Columbia, TNNPI 1841776333
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 166 payments — averaging $23.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$502
- AstraZeneca$268
- Johnson & Johnson$230
- Eisai Inc.$215
- Merck$180
- Bristol Myers Squibb$172
- plus $2K from 39 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,74295%
- Education$1935%
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.
How this compares
$3,935 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,404 physician assistant providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Allopurinol | 12 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Columbia
- Lindsey NixKnoxville$576K
- Anna KerseySavannah$399K
- Jason HenryNashville$329K
- Brie ChandlerNashville$317K
- Loree EasleyBartlett$209K
- Katherine RunyanKnoxville$156K
- John KramerNashville$125K
- Robert LaughertyAlcoa$122K
- Elisabeth BennettNashville$109K
- Whitney GatewoodMemphis$104K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.