Katherine Bertram
Internal Medicine · Cookeville, TNNPI 1689668790
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 80 payments — averaging $14.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$216
- Novartis$187
- Pfizer$94
- Boehringer Ingelheim$83
- Amgen$79
- Lilly USA, LLC$77
- plus $455 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$232%
- Food & beverage$1,16798%
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 | 16 | $216 |
| Novartis | 13 | $187 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $94 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $83 |
| Amgen | 6 | $79 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $77 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $72 |
| GSK | 4 | $53 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $51 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $41 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $39 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $30 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 2 | $28 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$1,190 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.
Other internal medicine in Cookeville
- Mark McKenzieChattanooga$11.9M
- Bernard GrunstraBristol$6.4M
- Jewel WhiteKingsport$5.7M
- Judith WhiteKingsport$5.6M
- Obadias MarquezOoltewah$2.8M
- Amanda Moore MillerKnoxville$2.3M
- Rick WhilesBristol$1.5M
- John AndersonNashville$1.5M
- David MorinKingsport$1.4M
- John KirbyJefferson City$1.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.