Kurt Tauer, MD
Medical Oncology · Germantown, TNNPI 1053340802
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $30,735 of the $44,041 with a category attached, or 69.8%. Merck accounts for 91.3% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 112 payments — averaging $393.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$40K
- Eli Lilly$1K
- Amgen$920
- Caris MPI, Inc.$262
- Eisai Inc.$152
- Lilly USA, LLC$150
- plus $928 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,4383%
- Speaking & faculty fees$30,73570%
- Travel & lodging$9,38321%
- Food & beverage$2,4606%
- Education$260%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 41 | $40,193 |
| Eli Lilly | 1 | $1,438 |
| Amgen | 3 | $920 |
| Caris MPI, Inc. | 9 | $262 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $152 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $150 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 7 | $131 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $121 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Gilead | 4 | $92 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $77 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $76 |
| Bayer | 3 | $59 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 4 | $55 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Novocure Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $21 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $16 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- KEYTRUDA$36,436
- Vectibix$906
- MI CANCER SEEK$132
- LENVIMA$108
- myRisk$104
How this compares
$44,041 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 101 medical oncology providers in Tennessee.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| KisqaliRibociclib Succinate | 46 | $783,701 |
| VerzenioAbemaciclib | 27 | $573,976 |
| TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate | 24 | $467,563 |
| IbrancePalbociclib | 25 | $376,741 |
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 24 | $339,391 |
| CabometyxCabozantinib S-Malate | 11 | $300,217 |
| EliquisApixaban | 83 | $55,348 |
| CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase | 26 | $45,114 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 26 | $19,158 |
| Lurasidone Hcl | 11 | $10,686 |
| Tamoxifen Citrate | 378 | $8,802 |
| Exemestane | 75 | $8,138 |
| Anastrozole | 380 | $5,882 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 149 | $3,922 |
| Potassium Chloride | 158 | $3,829 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCVerzenio | $150 | $573,97627 claims |
| AstraZenecaTagrisso | $76 | $467,56324 claims |
| PfizerIbrance, Eliquis | $121 | $432,089108 claims |
| Exelixis Inc.Cabometyx | $55 | $300,21711 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $21 | $19,15826 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 75th percentile of 101 medical oncology providers in Tennessee.
Other medical oncology in Germantown
- Gregory VidalGermantown$360K
- Jason ChandlerGermantown$234K
- Daniel VaenaGermantown$104K
- Sylvia RicheyGermantown$27K
- Albert WeeksGermantown$13K
- Ari VanderwaldeGermantown$11K
- William PaoNashville$838K
- Dana ThompsonNashville$339K
- Robert RamirezNashville$321K
- Mace RothenbergNashville$318K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.