Rachel Deffendall
Family · Mount Juliet, TNNPI 1962807263
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 46 payments — averaging $24.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$327
- Abbott$148
- Smith+Nephew$114
- Medtronic$72
- Stryker$64
- Boston Scientific$61
- plus $362 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$16114%
- Food & beverage$98786%
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 | 8 | $327 |
| Abbott | 7 | $148 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $114 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $72 |
| Stryker | 1 | $64 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $61 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $44 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $34 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $25 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $18 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 1 | $16 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,148 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 6,706 family providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ProgesteroneProgesterone, Micronized | 13 | $177 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Mount Juliet
- Stacy BrownMt Juliet$719K
- Dana WebberKnoxville$499K
- Brandy BiedermanHixson$448K
- Cynthia MillerMurfreesboro$384K
- Tamera ThoenerNashville$254K
- April SwonerHermitage$246K
- Jennifer WilliamsNashville$213K
- Chantil JeffreysGermantown$195K
- Laura PorchCordova$148K
- Lori LankfordNashville$148K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.