Jennifer Mercer
Advanced Practice Midwife · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1770898272
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $17,288 of the $20,359 with a category attached, or 84.9%. Organon accounts for 86.3% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $10,202 and has fallen 93.9% since, to $620 in 2025. Among advanced practice midwife 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 156 payments — averaging $130.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Organon$18K
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$1K
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$196
- Bayer$152
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$151
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$145
- plus $713 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$17,28885%
- Food & beverage$3,07115%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Organon | 32 | $17,562 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 60 | $1,440 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 8 | $196 |
| Bayer | 8 | $152 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 8 | $151 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $145 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 7 | $132 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $123 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $76 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 4 | $59 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $37 |
| Channel Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $19 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Millicent US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 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.
- NEXPLANON$17,194
How this compares
$20,359 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 207 advanced practice midwife providers in Tennessee.
Other advanced practice midwife in Chattanooga
- Sarah SmithChattanooga$32K
- Kathleen GarrettChattanooga$3K
- Amy Miller-AndersonChattanooga$2K
- Alicia FoxChattanooga$2K
- Trystan WhiteChattanooga$2K
- Hadlea EubanksChattanooga$1K
- Lydia van DykeChattanooga$1K
- Caroline BerryChattanooga$984
- Michelle HendersonChattanooga$883
- Margaret Fulmer-BraselChattanooga$883
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.