Karla Luker
Nurse Practitioner · Smyrna, TNNPI 1376553719
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 219 payments — averaging $14.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$755
- Amgen$456
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$311
- Lilly USA, LLC$257
- Novartis$225
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$192
- plus $988 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,12498%
- Education$602%
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) | 76 | $755 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 32 | $456 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 9 | $311 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 18 | $257 |
| Novartis | 16 | $225 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 10 | $192 |
| UCB, Inc. | 11 | $174 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 11 | $173 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 6 | $109 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $82 |
| TG Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| GSK | 4 | $72 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $41 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Amryt Pharma Holdings Ltd | 1 | $25 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $24 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $23 |
| Bayer | 1 | $22 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $19 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Ascensia Diabetes Care US Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $11 |
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.
- ACTHAR$119
How this compares
$3,184 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,662 nurse practitioner providers in Tennessee.
Other nurse practitioner in Smyrna
- Amy HatcherMurfreesboro$1.1M
- Karen RodenKnoxville$265K
- Susan UtleyNashville$194K
- Whitney EricksonMemphis$159K
- Erica HembreeKnoxville$125K
- Brooke FaughtNashville$89K
- Lauren WelchNashville$71K
- Cara StoutKingsport$71K
- S Marie HamiltonOoltewah$64K
- Cynthia WilsonChattanooga$62K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.