Michael Cole, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Cookeville, TNNPI 1598812463
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 122 payments — averaging $25.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$775
- AbbVie$531
- Channel Medsystems, Inc.$229
- Coopersurgical, Inc.$217
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$178
- Organon$159
- plus $986 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,50081%
- Education$57519%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $775 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 32 | $531 |
| Channel Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $229 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 11 | $217 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 7 | $178 |
| Organon | 8 | $159 |
| Bayer | 9 | $158 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 7 | $140 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 9 | $120 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 7 | $113 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $99 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 4 | $91 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $37 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 2 | $32 |
| Millicent US Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $26 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $13 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Meditrina | 1 | $11 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $11 |
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
$3,075 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 763 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Tennessee.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol | 43 | $3,884 |
| PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated | 13 | $3,715 |
| OsphenaOspemifene | 12 | $2,735 |
| Medroxyprogesterone Acetate | 47 | $853 |
| JunelNorethindrone Ac/Eth Estradiol | 15 | $308 |
| Larin FeNorethindrone-E.Estradiol-Iron | 18 | $245 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 18 | $214 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 20 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Cookeville
- Bert GeerCookeville$83K
- Daniel HarnsbergerChattanooga$2.5M
- Benjamin ChappellMemphis$1.2M
- Grover MayJohnson City$916K
- John GreenElizabethton$878K
- Samuel SimhaMemphis$536K
- Brent LaingElizabethton$480K
- David BarkerChattanooga$446K
- Lolly EldridgeJackson$353K
- Larry FieldsKnoxville$323K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.