Jeffrey Whitby, APRN
Nurse Practitioner · Trenton, TNNPI 1316537053
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 390 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 36 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,922 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $27 in 2025. Among nurse practitioner 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 390 payments — averaging $15.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Novo Nordisk$785
- AstraZeneca$449
- Lilly USA, LLC$428
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$364
- Pfizer$310
- plus $3K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,161100%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 98 | $1,233 |
| Novo Nordisk | 40 | $785 |
| AstraZeneca | 30 | $449 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 35 | $428 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 22 | $364 |
| Pfizer | 22 | $310 |
| Merck | 19 | $307 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 14 | $270 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 13 | $257 |
| Amgen | 17 | $217 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $195 |
| GSK | 11 | $192 |
| Bayer | 11 | $179 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $97 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 6 | $96 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $86 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $61 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $48 |
| Corium, LLC | 3 | $46 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $38 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $36 |
| Novartis | 2 | $35 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $34 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Biogen | 1 | $27 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $17 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- LINZESS$106
How this compares
$6,161 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,662 nurse practitioner 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 16 | $1,001 |
| Methocarbamol | 57 | $744 |
| Celecoxib | 40 | $652 |
| Methylprednisolone | 64 | $552 |
| Meloxicam | 130 | $395 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 65 | $349 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 33 | $308 |
| Baclofen | 36 | $212 |
| Ibuprofen | 14 | $207 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 15 | $130 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 12 | $57 |
| Simvastatin | 11 | $14 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Trenton
- Amy HatcherMurfreesboro$1.1M
- Karen RodenKnoxville$265K
- Susan UtleyNashville$194K
- Whitney EricksonMemphis$159K
- Erica HembreeKnoxville$125K
- Brooke FaughtNashville$87K
- Lauren WelchNashville$71K
- Cara StoutKingsport$71K
- S Marie HamiltonOoltewah$64K
- Cynthia WilsonChattanooga$62K
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.