Laura Chastain
Family · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1043418031
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,270 of the $1,571 with a category attached, or 80.8%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. at 34.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $976 and has fallen 97.7% since, to $23 in 2025.
Across 69 payments — averaging $22.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$536
- AbbVie$212
- Aspira Women's Health Inc$125
- Myovant Sciences Inc.$99
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$92
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$64
- plus $444 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$30119%
- Food & beverage$1,27081%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 7 | $536 |
| AbbVie | 17 | $212 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 2 | $125 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 5 | $99 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 7 | $92 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 4 | $59 |
| Bayer | 3 | $51 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 3 | $46 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $46 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $37 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Merck | 2 | $27 |
| Ascend Therapeutics US, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
| BD | 1 | $18 |
| Organon | 1 | $17 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., 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.
- NURTEC ODT$301
How this compares
$1,571 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 6,706 family providers in Tennessee.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.