Lorraine Ware
Critical Care Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1659468767
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $16,905 of the $17,787 with a category attached, or 95.0%. 4 manufacturers reported payments, led by Merck at 45.6% of the total. Among critical care medicine clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 12 payments — averaging $1482.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$8K
- Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc.$4K
- Akebia Therapeutics Inc$4K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$2K
Across 5 payments — averaging $144,650 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Genentech, Inc.$490K
- CSL Behring$193K
- Radiometer America, Inc$40K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,90595%
- Travel & lodging$5833%
- Food & beverage$2982%
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 | 9 | $8,107 |
| Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $4,270 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $3,660 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | 1 | $1,750 |
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.
- OXBRYTA$4,270
How this compares
$17,787 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 141 critical care medicine providers in Tennessee.
Other critical care medicine in Nashville
- Gordon BernardNashville$730K
- Todd RiceNashville$291K
- Jamie DeneauNashville$33K
- Ann GageNashville$22K
- Shelton HarrellNashville$16K
- Joseph SchlesingerNashville$15K
- Angelo CanonicoNashville$15K
- Erik HessNashville$14K
- Jonathan CaseyNashville$13K
- Eugene ElyNashville$9K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.