Jerome McKenzie
Internal Medicine · Knoxville, TNNPI 1528003761
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 94 payments — averaging $15.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$350
- Pfizer$204
- Novartis$191
- AstraZeneca$148
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$132
- Novo Nordisk$62
- plus $373 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,459100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 22 | $350 |
| Pfizer | 18 | $204 |
| Novartis | 12 | $191 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $148 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $132 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $62 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $35 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $31 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $26 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $25 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Merck | 1 | $11 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,459 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.
Other internal medicine in Knoxville
- Amanda Moore MillerKnoxville$2.3M
- George NewmanKnoxville$682K
- Dennis DeruelleKnoxville$263K
- Lewis HagoodKnoxville$143K
- Johnny AltawilKnoxville$23K
- Mark McKenzieChattanooga$11.9M
- Bernard GrunstraBristol$6.4M
- Jewel WhiteKingsport$5.7M
- Judith WhiteKingsport$5.6M
- Obadias MarquezOoltewah$2.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.