RxDoctor Payments Data

Gretchen Nitz, PA

Physician Assistant · la Follette, TNNPI 1508856873

Payments from drug & device makers

$370in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $20.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$132
  • Atricure, Inc.$98
  • Cvrx, Inc.$41
  • Johnson & Johnson$30
  • Abbott$18
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$18
  • plus $33 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$35696%
  • Education$144%

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

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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.

How this compares

$370 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 2,404 physician assistant providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$20,638
Medicare patients
123
Services billed
302

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban342$323,442
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan149$154,123
JardianceEmpagliflozin103$98,275
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab82$68,874
XareltoRivaroxaban51$60,413
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol50$37,681
Nebivolol Hcl107$7,000
Prasugrel Hcl18$3,991
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate14$3,911
Metoprolol Succinate283$3,441
Atorvastatin Calcium316$3,008
Valsartan108$2,821
Bumetanide56$2,064
Flecainide Acetate56$1,802
Bisoprolol Fumarate50$1,578

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
NovartisEntresto$132$154,123149 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$18$98,275103 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$30$60,41351 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$14$37,68150 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 2,404 physician assistant providers in Tennessee.

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