RxDoctor Payments Data

David Spigel, MD

Medical Oncology · Nashville, TNNPI 1427074210

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $113,718 of the $166,845 with a category attached, or 68.2%. It is spread thinly across 56 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.2%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $59,860 and has fallen 54.9% since, to $26,969 in 2025. Among medical oncology clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$166,845in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 263 payments — averaging $634.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$25K
  • AbbVie$23K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$22K
  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$18K
  • F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$17K
  • GSK$13K
  • plus $49K from 50 others
$29,581,204in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3,320 payments — averaging $8910.00 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.

  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$5.7M
  • Merck$5.2M
  • Genentech, Inc.$2.9M
  • AstraZeneca$2.9M
  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$2.8M
  • GSK$1M
  • plus $9M from 45 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$113,71868%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$13,7158%
  • Travel & lodging$32,43019%
  • Food & beverage$6,1204%
  • Education$8621%

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

$166,845 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 101 medical oncology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,388,861
Medicare patients
174
Services billed
39,878

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
TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate27$422,774
TabrectaCapmatinib Hydrochloride11$246,312
TepmetkoTepotinib Hcl13$188,205
EliquisApixaban21$17,196
Abiraterone Acetate12$1,578
Fentanyl14$1,194
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate11$404
Oxycodone Hcl17$362
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen17$315
Prochlorperazine Maleate19$217
Levothyroxine Sodium24$214
Prednisone30$108
Lactulose14$83

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
AstraZenecaTagrisso$25,396$422,77427 claims
NovartisTabrecta$8,869$246,31211 claims
EMD Serono, Inc.Tepmetko$46$188,20513 claims
PfizerEliquis$3,901$17,19621 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 90th percentile of 101 medical oncology providers in Tennessee.

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