Keerthi Heckle
Internal Medicine · Collierville, TNNPI 1730523986
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 194 payments — averaging $38.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$2K
- Ipsen Innovation$2K
- Novartis$994
- Novo Nordisk$945
- Lilly USA, LLC$435
- Amgen$376
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,30745%
- Food & beverage$4,09155%
- Education$60%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $1,794 |
| Ipsen Innovation | 3 | $1,762 |
| Novartis | 4 | $994 |
| Novo Nordisk | 54 | $945 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 35 | $435 |
| Amgen | 19 | $376 |
| AstraZeneca | 17 | $256 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 13 | $205 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 6 | $132 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 8 | $114 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 3 | $76 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $64 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $53 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $44 |
| Merck | 3 | $37 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $29 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| GSK | 2 | $24 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $22 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$7,404 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.
Other internal medicine in Collierville
- Henry StampsCollierville$161K
- Gina HanissianCollierville$25K
- 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
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.