Michele Tate, DO
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Sweetwater, TNNPI 1720281876
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $6,194 of the $8,225 with a category attached, or 75.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 76.1% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $6,464 and has fallen 92.8% since, to $468 in 2025. Among obstetrics & gynecology clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 100 payments — averaging $82.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$317
- AbbVie$315
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$171
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$151
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$145
- plus $870 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1342%
- Food & beverage$1,89723%
- Education$6,19475%
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 | 6 | $6,257 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 10 | $317 |
| AbbVie | 17 | $315 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 9 | $171 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 8 | $151 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 7 | $145 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 2 | $136 |
| Organon | 5 | $102 |
| Millicent US Inc | 4 | $81 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 4 | $81 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 5 | $77 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 4 | $73 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $43 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $38 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Gynesonics, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 3 | $26 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $20 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Medtronic | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$6,134
How this compares
$8,225 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 | 40 | $2,135 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 12 | $177 |
| Medroxyprogesterone Acetate | 20 | $161 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Sweetwater
- Laura MillerSweetwater$10K
- Grover MayJohnson City$916K
- John GreenElizabethton$878K
- Brent LaingElizabethton$480K
- Larry FieldsKnoxville$323K
- Michael SwanNashville$146K
- Clarinda Burton-ShannonLebanon$114K
- Royce AdkinsNashville$95K
- Olga MuldoonNashville$91K
- Kimberly LooneyNashville$84K
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.