RxDoctor Payments Data

Mary Nelson, MD

Internal Medicine · Knoxville, TNNPI 1518165745

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,680in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 84 payments — averaging $20.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$305
  • Pfizer$219
  • AbbVie$214
  • Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$147
  • Insmed, Inc.$116
  • GSK$112
  • plus $567 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,680100%

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

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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.

How this compares

$1,680 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$43,153
Medicare patients
97
Services billed
1,441

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
OzempicSemaglutide33$37,058
JardianceEmpagliflozin14$14,056
EliquisApixaban16$10,863
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf22$4,895
Boostrix TdapDiphth,pertuss(Acell),tet Vac15$1,047
Gabapentin80$855
Atorvastatin Calcium61$539
Rosuvastatin Calcium68$529
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate16$327
Losartan-HydrochlorothiazideLosartan/Hydrochlorothiazide16$319
Metoprolol Succinate21$296
Omeprazole23$274
Losartan Potassium43$265
Ropinirole Hcl12$226
Pantoprazole Sodium25$215

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Novo NordiskOzempic$305$37,05833 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$18$14,05614 claims
PfizerEliquis$219$10,86316 claims
GSKShingrix$112$4,89522 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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