Louis Talbert
Internal Medicine · Germantown, TNNPI 1659483949
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,571 of the $3,097 with a category attached, or 83.0%. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,066 and has fallen 97.2% since, to $30 in 2025.
Across 173 payments — averaging $17.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$633
- Tosoh Bioscience, Inc.$526
- AstraZeneca$409
- Amgen$284
- AbbVie$237
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$232
- plus $776 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,57183%
- Gifts$52617%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 41 | $633 |
| Tosoh Bioscience, Inc. | 2 | $526 |
| AstraZeneca | 30 | $409 |
| Amgen | 17 | $284 |
| AbbVie | 18 | $237 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 15 | $232 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $158 |
| Abbott | 4 | $98 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $82 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $70 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $67 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $36 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $36 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $27 |
| Bayer | 2 | $27 |
| Merck | 2 | $27 |
| GSK | 2 | $26 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $21 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Novartis | 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.
- SAMPLING NEEDLE ASSY - STD, G7,G8$263
- Calibrator Set, HbA1c$263
- G8 Elution Buffer No. 1, 800mL$263
- G8 elution Buffer No. 2, 800mL$263
- G8 Elution Buffer No. 3, 800mL$263
- HEMOLYSIS/WASH SOL (2000 mL)$263
How this compares
$3,097 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 31 | $364 |
| Donepezil Hcl | 11 | $212 |
| Ezetimibe | 11 | $204 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 12 | $176 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 11 | $171 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 15 | $129 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 13 | $114 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 16 | $108 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Germantown
- John AndersonNashville$1.5M
- Tracie WalkerJackson$488K
- Nathan TrenthamEtowah$404K
- Dennis DeruelleKnoxville$263K
- Devin ShermanFranklin$191K
- Lewis HagoodKnoxville$143K
- Temidayo AbeNashville$113K
- Kenya KozawaSweetwater$86K
- Wayne RileyNashville$86K
- Maighan SeagroveChattanooga$78K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.