Rachel Eckert, PA
Physician Assistant · Nashville, TNNPI 1942880315
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 91.1% of the total across 362 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 32 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among physician assistant 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 362 payments — averaging $34.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Incyte Corporation$1K
- UCB, Inc.$1K
- Novartis$1K
- Sanofi$943
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$940
- plus $5K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8006%
- Food & beverage$11,39391%
- Education$3153%
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 | 53 | $2,164 |
| Incyte Corporation | 17 | $1,194 |
| UCB, Inc. | 40 | $1,164 |
| Novartis | 33 | $1,008 |
| Sanofi | 26 | $943 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 27 | $940 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 20 | $919 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 43 | $918 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 14 | $390 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 7 | $332 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $282 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 4 | $264 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 11 | $243 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 3 | $236 |
| Organon | 7 | $186 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $173 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 8 | $172 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 5 | $157 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $144 |
| Convatec Inc. | 5 | $133 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $120 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $96 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $64 |
| Almirall LLC | 2 | $52 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 2 | $33 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$12,508 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,404 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clobetasol Propionate | 63 | $3,523 |
| Fluocinonide | 20 | $850 |
| Ketoconazole | 34 | $529 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 40 | $487 |
| CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine | 12 | $470 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 15 | $375 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 16 | $374 |
| Ciclopirox | 11 | $246 |
| Hydrocortisone | 19 | $193 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $158 |
| Mupirocin | 18 | $127 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Nashville
- Brie ChandlerNashville$317K
- Elisabeth BennettNashville$109K
- John KramerNashville$109K
- Nicholas BarkemeyerNashville$85K
- Rachel ConklinNashville$60K
- Aaron MankinNashville$53K
- Marci KleinrockNashville$39K
- Kevin GriffinNashville$18K
- Walter SimsNashville$18K
- Adele WillisNashville$16K
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.