Freddie Williams, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Kingsport, TNNPI 1356553648
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 54 payments — averaging $43.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$1K
- Heartflow, Inc.$531
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$246
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$172
- GE HealthCare$113
- Novartis$49
- plus $95 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,17450%
- Food & beverage$1,15149%
- Education$141%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 10 | $1,133 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 6 | $531 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 15 | $246 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 10 | $172 |
| GE HealthCare | 4 | $113 |
| Novartis | 3 | $49 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $31 |
| Amgen | 1 | $19 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $17 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
| AstraZeneca | 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.
- SOMATOM Force$999
- FFRct$354
How this compares
$2,338 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 429 cardiovascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 398 | $348,965 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 92 | $88,465 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 57 | $62,058 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 31 | $31,526 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 47 | $23,439 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 22 | $21,154 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 11 | $7,279 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 77 | $2,942 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 29 | $2,778 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 247 | $2,495 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 175 | $2,050 |
| Carvedilol | 175 | $1,972 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 150 | $1,924 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 169 | $1,663 |
| Potassium Chloride | 69 | $1,088 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $31 | $348,965398 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $49 | $88,46592 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $14 | $62,05857 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta | $14 | $54,96578 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $17 | $21,15422 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 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.
Other cardiovascular disease in Kingsport
- David MetzgerKingsport$4.8M
- Gaurav RanaKingsport$78K
- Brian LindmanNashville$5.5M
- Christopher EllisNashville$4.1M
- Dinesh GuptaNashville$3.2M
- Joann LindenfeldNashville$2.2M
- Frank McGrewMemphis$2.1M
- Rebecca HungNashville$1.8M
- Mohsin AlhaddadJackson$1.8M
- Robert SmithBrentwood$1.3M
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.