Has Dallas Wright received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,935 in general payments to Dallas Wright across 166 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Dallas Wright did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Dallas Wright come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Dallas Wright

Physician Assistant · Columbia, TNNPI 1841776333

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 95.1% of the total across 166 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 45 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 12.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,612, more than ten times the $16 reported in 2022.

$3,935in general payments, 2019–2025

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Novartis	18	$502
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	12	$268
Johnson & Johnson	7	$230
Eisai Inc.	8	$215
Merck	9	$180
Bristol Myers Squibb	8	$172
AbbVie	7	$159
Seagen Inc.	2	$130
GSK	6	$128
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	4	$126
Pfizer	6	$120
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	4	$101
Gilead	4	$100
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	5	$95
Beone Medicines USA, Inc.	4	$89
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	4	$88
Taiho Oncology, Inc.	4	$85
Puma Biotechnology, Inc.	4	$78
Array Biopharma Inc	4	$78
AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$72
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$71
Incyte Corporation	3	$69
Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC	3	$65
Sobi, Inc	4	$64
Pharmaessentia USA Corporation	3	$60
Exelixis Inc.	3	$60
Genmab U.S., Inc.	2	$49
EMD Serono, Inc.	2	$47
Sanofi	2	$46
Genentech USA, Inc.	2	$41
ADC Therapeutics America, Inc.	2	$40
Bayer	2	$40
Springworks Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$27
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$27
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$26
Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.	1	$23
Beigene USA, Inc.	1	$21
Geron Corporation	1	$20
Fennec Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$19
G1 Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$19
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	1	$19
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	1	$18
Cycle Pharmaceuticals Inc	1	$17
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.	1	$16
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$15

How this compares

$3,935 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,404 physician assistant providers in Tennessee.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Allopurinol	12	$52

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Robert LaughertyAlcoa$122K
Elisabeth BennettNashville$109K
John KramerNashville$109K
Whitney GatewoodMemphis$104K
Nicholas BarkemeyerNashville$85K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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