Karee Ruth
Nurse Practitioner · Knoxville, TNNPI 1710378534
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 114 payments — averaging $18.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$926
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$392
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$129
- Merck$118
- Cochlear Americas$99
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$69
- plus $395 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,129100%
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.
How this compares
$2,129 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,662 nurse practitioner providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 32 | $837 |
| Omeprazole | 50 | $611 |
| Famotidine | 40 | $229 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Knoxville
- Karen RodenKnoxville$265K
- Erica HembreeKnoxville$125K
- Robin LovedayKnoxville$56K
- Tiffany SteelmanKnoxville$21K
- Jennifer BerryKnoxville$19K
- Erica HillKnoxville$13K
- Amy HatcherMurfreesboro$1.1M
- Susan UtleyNashville$194K
- Whitney EricksonMemphis$159K
- Brooke FaughtNashville$89K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.