Mary Becker, MD
Family Medicine · Kingsport, TNNPI 1518961135
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $246 of the $291 with a category attached, or 84.4%. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $143 and has fallen 89.7% since, to $15 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for family medicine clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $470.
Across 12 payments — averaging $24.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$58
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$55
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$37
- Merck$24
- GSK$23
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$21
- plus $71 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4516%
- Food & beverage$24684%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 2 | $58 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Merck | 1 | $24 |
| GSK | 1 | $23 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $15 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$291 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 2,087 family medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 40 | $492 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 41 | $340 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 21 | $192 |
| Azithromycin | 15 | $125 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $106 |
| Fluconazole | 22 | $89 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 12 | $68 |
| Lisinopril | 16 | $63 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 18 | $50 |
| Prednisone | 12 | $50 |
| Furosemide | 14 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Kingsport
- Curtis JantziKingsport$39K
- Warren JonesKingsport$27K
- Emily HubbsKingsport$19K
- Shelton HagerKingsport$14K
- Kevin DennisFranklin$354K
- Charolette JacksonBartlett$162K
- Keren HolmesNashville$58K
- Kabir Harricharan SinghNewport$49K
- Khaisha GistAntioch$49K
- Jerry PunchKnoxville$45K
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.