Meredith Cromer
Family · Sevierville, TNNPI 1023436326
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 68 payments — averaging $20.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$261
- Boehringer Ingelheim$179
- Novo Nordisk$127
- AstraZeneca$109
- Bayer$99
- GSK$98
- plus $525 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,397100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 7 | $261 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 11 | $179 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $127 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $109 |
| Bayer | 5 | $99 |
| GSK | 6 | $98 |
| Inogen, Inc. | 3 | $77 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $75 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 3 | $46 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Merck | 2 | $32 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $27 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $25 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $17 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $17 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- UBRELVY$126
How this compares
$1,397 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 6,706 family providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 13 | $110 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Sevierville
- Stacy BrownMt Juliet$719K
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- Brandy BiedermanHixson$448K
- Cynthia MillerMurfreesboro$384K
- Tamera ThoenerNashville$254K
- April SwonerHermitage$246K
- Jennifer WilliamsNashville$213K
- Chantil JeffreysGermantown$195K
- Laura PorchCordova$148K
- Lori LankfordNashville$148K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.