David Bowers, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1568494474
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $27,946 of the $40,883 with a category attached, or 68.4%. Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc accounts for 89.6% of it on its own, with 39 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $18,162 and has fallen 97.2% since, to $517 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation 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 320 payments — averaging $127.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$37K
- AbbVie$844
- Radius Health, Inc.$496
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$404
- Amgen$381
- Johnson & Johnson$351
- plus $2K from 34 others
Across 214 payments — averaging $767.28 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Ipsen Pharma SAS$160K
- Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,3753%
- Speaking & faculty fees$27,94668%
- Travel & lodging$6,11915%
- Food & beverage$5,40313%
- Education$400%
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.
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.
- DYSPORT$35,761
How this compares
$40,883 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 134 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Tennessee.
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Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Baclofen | 40 | $463 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 11 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Chattanooga
- Terence DunnChattanooga$14K
- David LowryChattanooga$3K
- Sarah WilliamsChattanooga$1K
- Mackenzie TaylorChattanooga$921
- Susan CouncilChattanooga$717
- Paul HoffmannChattanooga$429
- Son leMt. Juliet$28K
- Sandra GolamcoNashville$13K
- Wesley PeaceNashville$9K
- Michael McGuirkOak Ridge$9K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.