Howard Burris, MD
Medical Oncology · Nashville, TNNPI 1417992397
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (36.7%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 49 manufacturers reported payments, led by F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG at 39.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,842 and has fallen 59.3% since, to $4,413 in 2025.
Across 147 payments — averaging $228.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$13K
- AstraZeneca$4K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$4K
- Pfizer$3K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$2K
- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg$2K
- plus $4K from 43 others
Across 1,988 payments — averaging $6122.48 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$3.4M
- Merck$1.7M
- Genentech, Inc.$1.3M
- Seagen Inc.$748K
- Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$699K
- AstraZeneca$443K
- plus $3.8M from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,65829%
- Speaking & faculty fees$12,33337%
- Travel & lodging$8,42825%
- Food & beverage$3,1519%
- Education$480%
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.
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
$33,619 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 101 medical oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tamoxifen Citrate | 12 | $254 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- David SpigelNashville$167K
- Michael GibsonNashville$141K
- Jordan BerlinNashville$120K
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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.