RxDoctor Payments Data

Jennifer Bess, MD

Internal Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1912947318

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,009in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 642 payments — averaging $17.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$2K
  • Pfizer$1K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Amgen$821
  • GSK$758
  • Lilly USA, LLC$738
  • plus $4K from 33 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$11,003100%
  • Education$60%

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

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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.

How this compares

$11,009 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$158,341
Medicare patients
364
Services billed
5,034

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban114$139,893
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter83$82,398
RybelsusSemaglutide30$58,277
OzempicSemaglutide34$51,939
Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide39$49,643
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol37$42,997
JardianceEmpagliflozin37$42,770
XareltoRivaroxaban34$39,963
MounjaroTirzepatide34$39,750
Humalog Kwikpen U-200Insulin Lispro19$27,562
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec15$26,439
TradjentaLinagliptin23$22,898
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab31$22,647
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan17$20,972
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr23$17,859

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerEliquis$1,439$139,893114 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$758$115,093128 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus, Ozempic$1,987$110,21664 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$662$65,66860 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33$134$49,64339 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$1,019$42,99737 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$174$39,96334 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$738$39,75034 claims
NovartisEntresto$135$20,97217 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$188$14,16612 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$573$5,557105 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium$38$4,763477 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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