RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Fuerst

Acute Care · Knoxville, TNNPI 1609866037

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,568in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 75 payments — averaging $20.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$288
  • Heartflow, Inc.$255
  • Novartis$197
  • Pfizer$186
  • Amgen$169
  • Cvrx, Inc.$102
  • plus $371 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,50296%
  • Education$664%

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

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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.

How this compares

$1,568 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 738 acute care providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$57,362
Medicare patients
370
Services billed
943

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban193$196,737
XareltoRivaroxaban64$62,402
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan62$57,294
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab33$25,095
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol31$21,801
MultaqDronedarone Hcl17$19,116
JardianceEmpagliflozin20$16,897
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate22$4,566
Ranolazine ErRanolazine38$3,005
Flecainide Acetate110$2,958
Metoprolol Succinate227$2,274
Nebivolol Hcl30$2,040
Rosuvastatin Calcium134$1,341
Clonidine11$1,278
Telmisartan34$992

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerEliquis$186$196,737193 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$63$62,40264 claims
NovartisEntresto$197$57,29462 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$34$21,80131 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 738 acute care providers in Tennessee.

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