Elie Mansour, MD
Pulmonary Disease · la Follette, TNNPI 1942246145
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 204 payments — averaging $20.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Grifols USA, LLC$2K
- AstraZeneca$524
- GSK$249
- Zimmer Biomet$192
- Stryker$166
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$165
- plus $1K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,18899%
- Education$411%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grifols USA, LLC | 78 | $1,540 |
| AstraZeneca | 31 | $524 |
| GSK | 13 | $249 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $192 |
| Stryker | 2 | $166 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 8 | $165 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 9 | $134 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 7 | $129 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $111 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $83 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $71 |
| Inogen, Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $54 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $53 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Merck | 3 | $46 |
| Bayer | 2 | $42 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $37 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $36 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $25 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $17 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Avenir$192
- TRIATHLON$161
- MAKO$161
- Sx-One Microknife$131
How this compares
$4,230 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 339 pulmonary disease providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prolastin CAlpha-1-Proteinase Inhibitor | 79 | $810,177 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 243 | $181,987 |
| EliquisApixaban | 315 | $156,943 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 77 | $51,194 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 72 | $47,948 |
| Dupixent SyringeDupilumab | 12 | $44,559 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 63 | $43,292 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 54 | $31,273 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 41 | $25,864 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 38 | $25,300 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 68 | $24,221 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 18 | $19,605 |
| ProliaDenosumab | 11 | $19,205 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 38 | $18,446 |
| Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 14 | $17,515 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Grifols USA, LLCProlastin C | $1,540 | $810,17779 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta | $249 | $218,310320 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $25 | $156,943315 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimTradjenta, Spiriva Respimat, Jardiance, Stiolto Respimat, Combivent Respimat | $53 | $149,884243 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Bevespi Aerosphere, Symbicort | $524 | $76,204152 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $46 | $25,30038 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $54 | $24,22168 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus | $37 | $7,81032 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 50th percentile of 339 pulmonary disease providers in Tennessee.
Other pulmonary disease in la Follette
- Fabien MaldonadoNashville$2.5M
- Aaron MilstoneFranklin$2.4M
- John SwisherKnoxville$2.3M
- James TolleNashville$2.3M
- Lisa LancasterNashville$1.6M
- Ivan RobbinsNashville$1.3M
- Clyde SouthwellHendersonville$801K
- Krishnendu BhadraChattanooga$631K
- Eric WeaverKnoxville$492K
- Rajiv DhandKnoxville$426K
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.