Patience Whitten
Family · Germantown, TNNPI 1508321621
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 267 payments — averaging $18.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
- AbbVie$1K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$417
- Johnson & Johnson$283
- Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$255
- Sanofi$219
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,88798%
- Education$992%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 63 | $1,163 |
| AbbVie | 63 | $1,093 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 23 | $417 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $283 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 14 | $255 |
| Sanofi | 8 | $219 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 10 | $218 |
| Merck | 10 | $172 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $157 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $154 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $145 |
| Gilead | 7 | $135 |
| Amgen | 7 | $114 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 6 | $80 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $38 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $27 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $14 |
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
$4,986 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 6,706 family providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 56 | $769 |
| Omeprazole | 32 | $287 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 15 | $280 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Germantown
- Chantil JeffreysGermantown$195K
- Jennifer McKeeGermantown$81K
- Laura BargerGermantown$25K
- Melissa BarnesGermantown$19K
- Stacy BrownMt Juliet$719K
- Dana WebberKnoxville$499K
- Brandy BiedermanHixson$448K
- Cynthia MillerMurfreesboro$384K
- Tamera ThoenerNashville$254K
- April SwonerHermitage$246K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.