Meredith Buckner
Physician Assistant · Knoxville, TNNPI 1811356801
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 79 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 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $481 and has fallen 91.6% since, to $41 in 2025.
Across 79 payments — averaging $19.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$252
- Amgen$198
- Bristol Myers Squibb$161
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$155
- Sanofi$132
- Johnson & Johnson$81
- plus $552 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,531100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 13 | $252 |
| Amgen | 12 | $198 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $161 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 9 | $155 |
| Sanofi | 7 | $132 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $81 |
| Gilead(2 entities) | 3 | $63 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $59 |
| Seagen Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $44 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| GSK | 2 | $39 |
| Puma Biotechnology, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Novartis | 1 | $25 |
| Acrotech Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $20 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 1 | $12 |
| Epizyme, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,531 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,404 physician assistant providers in Tennessee.
Other physician assistant in Knoxville
- Lindsey NixKnoxville$576K
- Katherine RunyanKnoxville$156K
- Kevin BlazerKnoxville$20K
- Meghan ShotwellKnoxville$18K
- Timothy VanceKnoxville$13K
- Danielle WarrenKnoxville$11K
- Hannah DareingKnoxville$11K
- Anna KerseySavannah$399K
- Brie ChandlerNashville$317K
- Loree EasleyBartlett$187K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.