Heidi Chen
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Nashville, TNNPI 1023512373
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $3,383 of the $4,677 with a category attached, or 72.3%. Merck accounts for 72.3% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation 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 18 payments — averaging $259.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$3K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$438
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$296
- Medtronic$207
- Nevro Corp.$143
- Abbott$113
- plus $97 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,38372%
- Food & beverage$1,29428%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 6 | $3,383 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 5 | $438 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $296 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $207 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $143 |
| Abbott | 1 | $113 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $97 |
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.
- REZDIFFRA$296
- SPRINT PNS System$283
- Senza$143
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$124
- PROCLAIM$113
How this compares
$4,677 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 134 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Tennessee.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 130 | $1,823 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 65 | $937 |
| Celecoxib | 23 | $605 |
| Methocarbamol | 23 | $152 |
| Meloxicam | 16 | $64 |
| Pregabalin | 12 | $57 |
| Alprazolam | 11 | $5 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Nashville
- Sandra GolamcoNashville$13K
- Wesley PeaceNashville$9K
- Jeffery JohnsNashville$5K
- Rafael PrietoNashville$4K
- William SullivanNashville$4K
- David KennedyNashville$2K
- Ashley EavesNashville$1K
- Scott MillerNashville$1K
- Saumya AujlaNashville$1K
- Matthew MichaelsNashville$878
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.