Jewel White
Internal Medicine · Kingsport, TNNPI 1871595058
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Novartis.
Across 3 payments — averaging $115.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$348
Across 149 payments — averaging $38,371 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.
- Eli Lilly$3.5M
- Novartis$1.4M
- AbbVie$387K
- Genentech, Inc.$151K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$135K
- F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$95K
- plus $56K from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$17350%
- Food & beverage$17550%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 3 | $348 |
How this compares
$348 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.
Other internal medicine in Kingsport
- Sam SadeghiKingsport$16K
- David MorinKingsport$14K
- John AndersonNashville$1.5M
- Tracie WalkerJackson$488K
- Nathan TrenthamEtowah$404K
- Dennis DeruelleKnoxville$263K
- Devin ShermanFranklin$191K
- Lewis HagoodKnoxville$143K
- Temidayo AbeNashville$113K
- Kenya KozawaSweetwater$86K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.