Derek Cooze
Family Medicine · Morristown, TNNPI 1710937701
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.7% of the total across 503 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 39 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 12.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,231 and has fallen 91.7% since, to $267 in 2022.
Across 503 payments — averaging $16.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Novo Nordisk$987
- Johnson & Johnson$874
- AstraZeneca$791
- GSK$747
- Amgen$539
- plus $3K from 33 others
Across 466 payments — averaging $68.65 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.
- Novo Nordisk AS$32K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$8,120100%
- Education$230%
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.
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
$8,143 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.
Other family medicine in Morristown
- Justin GarrisonMorristown$35K
- Kevin DennisFranklin$354K
- Charolette JacksonBartlett$162K
- Keren HolmesNashville$58K
- Kabir Harricharan SinghNewport$49K
- Khaisha GistAntioch$49K
- Jerry PunchKnoxville$45K
- Christopher HollowayAntioch$41K
- Curtis JantziKingsport$39K
- Ellen ClelandChattanooga$38K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.