Jerry Punch
Family Medicine · Knoxville, TNNPI 1962773614
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $30,000 of the $44,656 with a category attached, or 67.2%. Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. accounts for 67.2% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $30,000 and has fallen 61.7% since, to $11,493 in 2025. Among family 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 25 payments — averaging $1786.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$30K
- Eli Lilly$11K
- Merck$2K
- Zealand Pharma A/s$2K
Across 94 payments — averaging $21,653 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$1.1M
- Eli Lilly$428K
- Novartis$158K
- Amgen$135K
- AbbVie$133K
- Pfizer$99K
- plus $7K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$30,00067%
- Travel & lodging$4,0529%
- Food & beverage$10,60424%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $30,000 |
| Eli Lilly | 13 | $11,493 |
| Merck | 9 | $1,659 |
| Zealand Pharma A/s | 2 | $1,504 |
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.
- XIAFLEX$30,000
How this compares
$44,656 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.
Other family medicine in Knoxville
- David CrouchKnoxville$16K
- Rickey ManningKnoxville$14K
- Paul WakefieldKnoxville$14K
- Justin QuinnKnoxville$14K
- Kevin DennisFranklin$354K
- Charolette JacksonBartlett$162K
- Keren HolmesNashville$58K
- Kabir Harricharan SinghNewport$49K
- Khaisha GistAntioch$49K
- Christopher HollowayAntioch$41K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.