RxDoctor Payments Data

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.

$44,656in general payments, 2019–2025

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
$2,035,427in research payments, 2019–2025

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

19
24
25

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.1$30,000
Eli Lilly13$11,493
Merck9$1,659
Zealand Pharma A/s2$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.

How this compares

$44,656 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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