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Kendra Hendon, MD

Nephrology · Knoxville, TNNPI 1538169305

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,133,893in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 572 payments — averaging $1982.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Akebia Therapeutics Inc$416K
  • GSK$391K
  • Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$149K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$77K
  • Pfizer$45K
  • AbbVie$23K
  • plus $32K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,15093%
  • Education$827%

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

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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

$1,133,893 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 229 nephrology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$399,235
Medicare patients
814
Services billed
9,002

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide68$196,177
AuryxiaFerric Citrate53$69,095
FosrenolLanthanum Carbonate21$21,757
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate25$14,132
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol17$11,677
Sevelamer Carbonate91$11,573
Bumetanide83$2,496
Potassium Chloride28$2,099
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.112$1,729
Torsemide44$1,142
Calcium Acetate11$1,140
Hydralazine Hcl58$784
Metoprolol Succinate37$692
Losartan Potassium71$686
Spironolactone73$523

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia$415,791$69,09553 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma, Farxiga$4,311$25,80942 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 229 nephrology providers in Tennessee.

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