Pat Whitworth
Surgical Oncology · Nashville, TNNPI 1144205519
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $52,275 of the $61,599 with a category attached, or 84.9%. Icad, Inc accounts for 75.7% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $30,526 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $32 in 2025. Among surgical oncology clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 87 payments — averaging $708.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Icad, Inc$47K
- Endomagnetics Ltd$6K
- Puma Biotechnology, Inc.$4K
- Impedimed, Inc.$3K
- Elucent Medical$545
- Vector Surgical, LLC$230
- plus $2K from 17 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $6475.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Puma Biotechnology, Inc.$21K
- Medtronic$5K
Across 6 payments — averaging $2093.87 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Viseon, Inc.$13K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$52,27585%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,0002%
- Travel & lodging$2,6504%
- Food & beverage$5,3609%
- Entertainment$3141%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Icad, Inc | 16 | $46,625 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 13 | $6,398 |
| Puma Biotechnology, Inc. | 6 | $3,524 |
| Impedimed, Inc. | 2 | $2,530 |
| Elucent Medical | 2 | $545 |
| Vector Surgical, LLC | 1 | $230 |
| Sirius Medical Systems | 2 | $221 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 3 | $215 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 4 | $195 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $145 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $132 |
| Merck | 6 | $124 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 5 | $110 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $108 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $100 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $93 |
| Leica Microsystems Inc. | 2 | $74 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $50 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $50 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $46 |
| Focal Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $38 |
| KUB Technologies Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 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.
- Mammography-Powerlook AMP$26,250
- AXXENT SURFACE CONTROLLER$20,375
- Nerlynx$3,450
- Magseed$1,057
- Magtrace$714
- PINTUITION$164
- Savi SCOUT$142
- SURGIMEND$139
- NATRELLE$132
How this compares
$61,599 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 53 surgical oncology providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Anastrozole | 109 | $2,546 |
| Letrozole | 48 | $1,376 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical oncology in Nashville
- Chandrasekhar PadmanabhanNashville$29K
- Mariana ChavezNashville$14K
- Marcus TanNashville$8K
- Kamran IdreesNashville$6K
- Colleen KiernanNashville$2K
- Deepa MaggeNashville$2K
- Ingrid MeszoelyNashville$2K
- Kristina ShafferNashville$1K
- Denise GarciaNashville$1K
- Tiffany NevillNashville$1K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.