Elizabeth Parker
Physician Assistant · Knoxville, TNNPI 1841478476
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,741 of the $5,543 with a category attached, or 85.5%. It is spread thinly across 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,168, 5.2 times the $419 reported in 2021. Among physician assistant 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.
Across 54 payments — averaging $102.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$1K
- Medtronic$415
- GSK$365
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$361
- Genentech USA, Inc.$359
- Novo Nordisk$258
- plus $3K from 21 others
Across 16 payments — averaging $208.20 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.
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$3K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$80214%
- Food & beverage$4,74186%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 7 | $1,200 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $415 |
| GSK | 3 | $365 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $361 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $359 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $258 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 3 | $241 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $214 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $207 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $202 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $189 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $127 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $125 |
| Abbott | 1 | $122 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Bayer | 1 | $121 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $108 |
| Vertex | 1 | $102 |
| Gilead | 1 | $102 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $102 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $97 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $95 |
| Merck | 2 | $70 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $57 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
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
$5,543 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,404 physician assistant providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 12 | $317 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Katherine RunyanKnoxville$156K
- Kevin BlazerKnoxville$20K
- Meghan ShotwellKnoxville$18K
- Timothy VanceKnoxville$13K
- Danielle WarrenKnoxville$11K
- Hannah DareingKnoxville$11K
- Anna KerseySavannah$399K
- Brie ChandlerNashville$317K
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.