Michael West
Family Medicine · Knoxville, TNNPI 1164466587
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 350 payments — averaging $15.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$822
- Boehringer Ingelheim$542
- Novo Nordisk$524
- GSK$522
- Pfizer$375
- AstraZeneca$347
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,37698%
- Education$1192%
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(2 entities) | 61 | $822 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 31 | $542 |
| Novo Nordisk | 32 | $524 |
| GSK | 36 | $522 |
| Pfizer | 29 | $375 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $347 |
| Amgen | 18 | $304 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 21 | $270 |
| Abbott | 11 | $220 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 11 | $189 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $171 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 8 | $146 |
| Merck | 10 | $137 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $111 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $103 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 7 | $102 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 5 | $90 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $83 |
| Novartis | 5 | $65 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $55 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $51 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 3 | $45 |
| Bayer | 3 | $40 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $27 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $15 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, 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.
- FARXIGA$125
How this compares
$5,495 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.
Other family medicine in Knoxville
- Rickey ManningKnoxville$8.1M
- Paul WakefieldKnoxville$4.3M
- Jerry PunchKnoxville$2.1M
- Kymberly MoyerGallatin$5.9M
- Natasha BallardChattanooga$5.7M
- Hina BudhwaniNashville$4.7M
- Emily HubbsKingsport$2.8M
- Bridgette FraneyNashville$2M
- Andrew BrockmyreBristol$1.8M
- Marcus LeeTullahoma$1.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.