Gary Bickford
Family · Knoxville, TNNPI 1700923331
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 40 payments — averaging $109.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$876
- AstraZeneca$602
- GSK$346
- Genentech USA, Inc.$330
- Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.$264
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$230
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,372100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $876 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $602 |
| GSK | 3 | $346 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $330 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $264 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $230 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $225 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $177 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $122 |
| Bayer | 1 | $122 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $64 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $59 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $58 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
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
$4,372 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 6,706 family providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 14 | $71 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Knoxville
- Dana WebberKnoxville$499K
- Tiffany SipeKnoxville$87K
- Ashley BonnellKnoxville$49K
- Stacey MaltmanKnoxville$34K
- Katherine JohnsonKnoxville$32K
- Ashley BellKnoxville$22K
- Carol HawkinsKnoxville$22K
- Mina FarrarKnoxville$21K
- Amy AllenKnoxville$21K
- Sarah HarderKnoxville$19K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.