Meredith Buckner
Physician Assistant · Knoxville, TNNPI 1811356801
Payments from drug & device makers
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 70th 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
- Anna KerseySavannah$399K
- Jason HenryNashville$329K
- Brie ChandlerNashville$317K
- Loree EasleyBartlett$209K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.