Lauren Welch
Nurse Practitioner · Nashville, TNNPI 1295104933
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $47,984 of the $71,420 with a category attached, or 67.2%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by AstraZeneca at 34.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $38,083 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $155 in 2023. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 162 payments — averaging $440.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$25K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$18K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$16K
- Sanofi$7K
- Pfizer$3K
- G1 Therapeutics, Inc.$1K
- plus $2K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,90012%
- Speaking & faculty fees$47,98467%
- Travel & lodging$10,92915%
- Food & beverage$3,6085%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 43 | $24,602 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 56 | $18,152 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 30 | $15,643 |
| Sanofi | 13 | $7,310 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $2,739 |
| G1 Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $1,382 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $1,250 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $134 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Novartis | 2 | $27 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
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.
How this compares
$71,420 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,662 nurse practitioner providers in Tennessee.
Other nurse practitioner in Nashville
- Susan UtleyNashville$194K
- Brooke FaughtNashville$87K
- Patricia MorrisNashville$53K
- Molly MueckeNashville$30K
- Cherish HoltNashville$20K
- Virginia BradshawNashville$17K
- Bettina EnghNashville$17K
- Megan HuningNashville$12K
- Amy HatcherMurfreesboro$1.1M
- Karen RodenKnoxville$265K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.