RxDoctor Payments Data

John Kliesch, MD

Family Medicine · Kingsport, TNNPI 1679538326

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,396in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 72 payments — averaging $19.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sanofi$223
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$137
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$103
  • Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$102
  • GSK$102
  • Philips North America LLC$74
  • plus $656 from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,396100%

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

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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.

How this compares

$1,396 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$43,218
Medicare patients
154
Services billed
1,629

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
JardianceEmpagliflozin36$22,019
EliquisApixaban19$13,856
Roflumilast13$1,377
Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate22$1,318
Ipratropium Bromide38$1,295
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol15$1,040
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate32$932
Torsemide24$872
Cefdinir59$725
Clotrimazole18$718
Duloxetine Hcl32$706
Potassium Chloride37$675
Metolazone26$654
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl46$648
Vancomycin Hcl12$635

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$18$22,01936 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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