Ingrid Mayer
Medical Oncology · Nashville, TNNPI 1871677971
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $69,909 of the $94,193 with a category attached, or 74.2%. It is spread thinly across 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.2%.
Across 63 payments — averaging $1495.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$19K
- Novartis Pharma AG$12K
- Sanofi$10K
- Eli Lilly$10K
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$9K
- Immunomedics, Inc.$5K
- plus $28K from 12 others
Across 186 payments — averaging $33,248 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.
- Pfizer$2.7M
- Novartis$2.1M
- Genentech, Inc.$605K
- Gilead$283K
- Puma Biotechnology, Inc.$219K
- AstraZeneca$152K
- plus $140K from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$69,90974%
- Speaking & faculty fees$14,12515%
- Travel & lodging$8,97210%
- Food & beverage$1,1751%
- Education$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 14 | $19,015 |
| Novartis Pharma AG | 6 | $12,364 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $10,388 |
| Eli Lilly | 7 | $10,227 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 4 | $8,563 |
| Immunomedics, Inc. | 1 | $5,225 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $5,137 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $4,993 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $3,500 |
| Merck | 1 | $3,500 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $2,982 |
| Seagen Inc. | 3 | $2,629 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $1,719 |
| Macrogenics, Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 1 | $1,400 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $990 |
| Puma Biotechnology, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Gilead | 1 | $12 |
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
$94,193 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 101 medical oncology providers in Tennessee.
Other medical oncology in Nashville
- William PaoNashville$838K
- Dana ThompsonNashville$339K
- Robert RamirezNashville$321K
- Mace RothenbergNashville$318K
- Melissa JohnsonNashville$290K
- Cathy EngNashville$231K
- David SpigelNashville$167K
- Michael GibsonNashville$141K
- Jordan BerlinNashville$120K
- Vandana AbramsonNashville$98K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.