Meredith Bratcher
Physician Assistant · Murfreesboro, TNNPI 1497357305
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 94.6% of the total across 126 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 36 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,293 and has fallen 98.7% since, to $16 in 2024.
Across 126 payments — averaging $22.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$579
- AbbVie$559
- Novartis$239
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$170
- Johnson & Johnson$160
- Pfizer$147
- plus $927 from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,63195%
- Education$1505%
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 | 16 | $579 |
| AbbVie | 32 | $559 |
| Novartis | 13 | $239 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $170 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $160 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $147 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $129 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 3 | $70 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 4 | $62 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $51 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $50 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $39 |
| GSK | 2 | $34 |
| Insulet Corporation | 2 | $33 |
| Amgen | 2 | $32 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 2 | $31 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Zealand Pharma US, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Bayer | 1 | $17 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Halozyme Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| VBI Vaccine (delaware) Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $14 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $14 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $13 |
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
$2,781 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,404 physician assistant providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 30 | $340 |
| Potassium Chloride | 11 | $336 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 25 | $232 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $158 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 11 | $127 |
| Lisinopril | 12 | $127 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 17 | $106 |
| Losartan Potassium | 11 | $87 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 13 | $60 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.