Joseph Schlesinger, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1326211665
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $13,200 of the $15,405 with a category attached, or 85.7%. Philips North America LLC accounts for 95.6% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $7,629 and has fallen 96.4% since, to $272 in 2025. Among critical care medicine clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 21 payments — averaging $733.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Philips North America LLC$15K
- KARL Storz Endoscopy-america$242
- Masimo Corporation$168
- Stryker$110
- Medtronic$88
- AbbVie$74
Across 11 payments — averaging $2255.44 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.
- KARL Storz Endoscopy-america$25K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4403%
- Speaking & faculty fees$13,20086%
- Travel & lodging$8856%
- Food & beverage$8806%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Philips North America LLC | 11 | $14,722 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 4 | $242 |
| Masimo Corporation | 3 | $168 |
| Stryker | 1 | $110 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $88 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $74 |
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.
- Respiratory$9,245
- (2858) General Consulting$5,280
- SURPASS EVOLVE$110
- (1439) HPM Undivided$104
How this compares
$15,405 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 141 critical care medicine providers in Tennessee.
Medicare billing
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.
Other critical care medicine in Nashville
- Gordon BernardNashville$730K
- Todd RiceNashville$291K
- Jamie DeneauNashville$33K
- Ann GageNashville$22K
- Lorraine WareNashville$18K
- Shelton HarrellNashville$16K
- Angelo CanonicoNashville$15K
- Erik HessNashville$14K
- Jonathan CaseyNashville$13K
- Eugene ElyNashville$9K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.