John Stancher
Gastroenterology · Knoxville, TNNPI 1780761841
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 248 payments — averaging $16.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$486
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$483
- Pfizer$422
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$375
- Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$219
- plus $862 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,63692%
- Education$1193%
- Gifts$2135%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 70 | $1,122 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 29 | $486 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 26 | $483 |
| Pfizer | 40 | $422 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 23 | $375 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 6 | $219 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 10 | $195 |
| Gilead | 10 | $156 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| UCB, Inc. | 4 | $53 |
| Merck | 3 | $43 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $41 |
| Amgen | 2 | $40 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $27 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Romark Laboratories, LC | 2 | $20 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$3,969 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 336 gastroenterology providers in Tennessee.
Other gastroenterology in Knoxville
- Raj NarayaniKnoxville$216K
- Carlos RollhauserKnoxville$144K
- Jason HuffmanKnoxville$105K
- William ErgenKnoxville$49K
- Meade EdmundsKnoxville$21K
- Thomas YoungKnoxville$20K
- Ziad YounesGermantown$15.6M
- Robert HerringNashville$3.2M
- Dawn Borromeo BeaulieuNashville$2.1M
- David SchwartzNashville$1.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.