Ellen Tessman
Nurse Practitioner · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1316961626
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 178 payments — averaging $25.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$842
- AbbVie$604
- Insulet Corporation$368
- Medtronic$351
- Dexcom, Inc.$261
- Sequel Med Tech, LLC$254
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,24892%
- Education$3658%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 17 | $842 |
| AbbVie | 40 | $604 |
| Insulet Corporation | 15 | $368 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $351 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 4 | $261 |
| Sequel Med Tech, LLC | 6 | $254 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 9 | $192 |
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $181 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 4 | $169 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $139 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $138 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 5 | $136 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $136 |
| Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc | 6 | $119 |
| Zealand Pharma US, Inc. | 6 | $112 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $71 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Eton Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Organon | 1 | $26 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| BETA Bionics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Soleno Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $14 |
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
$4,613 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,662 nurse practitioner providers in Tennessee.
Other nurse practitioner in Chattanooga
- Cynthia WilsonChattanooga$62K
- Honor HightshueChattanooga$45K
- Amy OttmanChattanooga$32K
- Philip AndrewsChattanooga$18K
- Amberly EllisChattanooga$17K
- Erin StockwellChattanooga$15K
- Teresa DeeseChattanooga$13K
- Jay PassmoreChattanooga$13K
- Amy HatcherMurfreesboro$1.1M
- Karen RodenKnoxville$265K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.