Jeffery Nelson
Critical Care Medicine · Maryville, TNNPI 1285602128
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $112,609 of the $146,563 with a category attached, or 76.8%. Kedplasma LLC accounts for 99.4% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $59,381 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $17 in 2025. Among critical care medicine clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 165 payments — averaging $888.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kedplasma LLC$146K
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$261
- Novo Nordisk$119
- AbbVie$110
- Bayer$84
- Boehringer Ingelheim$80
- plus $270 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$112,60977%
- Travel & lodging$33,03023%
- Food & beverage$9241%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kedplasma LLC | 120 | $145,640 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $261 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $119 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $110 |
| Bayer | 5 | $84 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $80 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $57 |
| GSK | 3 | $57 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Amgen | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Ozempic$119
How this compares
$146,563 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 141 critical care medicine providers in Tennessee.
Other critical care medicine in Maryville
- Gordon BernardNashville$730K
- Todd RiceNashville$291K
- Jeremy GreenbergChattanooga$64K
- Anthony MattoxMemphis$33K
- Jamie DeneauNashville$33K
- Ann GageNashville$22K
- Nathan WildsMemphis$19K
- Lora Cooper-YoakumKnoxville$18K
- Lorraine WareNashville$18K
- Shelton HarrellNashville$16K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.