RxDoctor Payments Data

Dana Simpson

Family · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1114253689

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,361in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 346 payments — averaging $32.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$3K
  • Medtronic$3K
  • Abbott$950
  • AbbVie$745
  • Nevro Corp.$387
  • Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$320
  • plus $3K from 32 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$2,76224%
  • Food & beverage$8,59976%

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

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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.

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

$11,361 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,706 family providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$145,096
Medicare patients
273
Services billed
2,686

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate139$64,927
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl72$62,090
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen1,675$45,232
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen1,126$33,283
Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate14$29,834
Gabapentin1,246$16,347
ZtlidoLidocaine14$16,200
NucyntaTapentadol Hcl13$15,365
Buprenorphine73$14,493
GraliseGabapentin13$13,637
Oxycodone Hcl632$11,670
Nucynta ErTapentadol Hcl14$10,330
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl24$9,028
SavellaMilnacipran Hcl18$8,364
Lidocaine106$8,033

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Xtampza Er, Belbuca, Nucynta, Nucynta Er$299$152,713238 claims
PfizerNurtec Odt$149$29,83414 claims
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Ztlido$320$16,20014 claims
Almatica Pharma LLCGralise$96$13,63713 claims
AbbVieSavella$745$8,36418 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 6,706 family providers in Tennessee.

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