Kala Grant
Primary Care · Athens, TNNPI 1295366987
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 56 payments — averaging $17.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$139
- Abbott$115
- AbbVie$63
- AstraZeneca$61
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$58
- Boehringer Ingelheim$57
- plus $488 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$981100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $139 |
| Abbott | 7 | $115 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $63 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $61 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 3 | $58 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $57 |
| GSK | 4 | $56 |
| Bayer | 3 | $51 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Merck | 2 | $44 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $35 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Amgen | 2 | $34 |
| Tonix Medicines, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
How this compares
$981 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 189 primary care providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Azithromycin | 11 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other primary care in Athens
- Mary SullivanGermantown$115K
- Len GetzMemphis$25K
- Judith CaldwellNashville$18K
- Mara HutchingsNashville$14K
- Reena BhaktaMurfreesboro$12K
- Ryan HartmanNashville$11K
- Martha LemonsBrentwood$11K
- Abigail EubankHendersonville$9K
- Corey ClelandSevierville$9K
- Katie JohnsonClarksville$8K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.