Patrick McDougal, MD
Emergency Medicine · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1881614105
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.2% of the total across 10 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 9 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $259 and has fallen 63.8% since, to $94 in 2025. Among emergency medicine 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 10 payments — averaging $77.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$150
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$109
- AbbVie$109
- Pfizer$99
- Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc.$94
- Inari Medical, Inc.$92
- plus $119 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$294%
- Food & beverage$74296%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 1 | $150 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $109 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $109 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $99 |
| Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $48 |
| Mindray DS USA, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 2 | $29 |
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.
- Impella$150
- CARDIOHELP$109
- DALVANCE$109
How this compares
$771 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 976 emergency medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 24 | $84 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other emergency medicine in Chattanooga
- Jessica WhittleChattanooga$18K
- Benjamin SmithChattanooga$6K
- Luke CouchChattanooga$2K
- Jeffrey AthertonChattanooga$2K
- Christine JeongChattanooga$1K
- Sherry SextonChattanooga$1K
- Caleb HarrellChattanooga$1K
- John MarshallChattanooga$689
- Frank CalhounChattanooga$659
- Jeffrey AtkinsPikeville$140K
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.