Randy Fullerton, MD
Internal Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1356325237
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 497 payments — averaging $17.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
- Novo Nordisk$868
- GSK$845
- Lilly USA, LLC$516
- Pfizer$366
- plus $3K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$8,53198%
- Education$130%
- Gifts$1572%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 63 | $1,429 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 86 | $1,429 |
| Novo Nordisk | 57 | $868 |
| GSK | 54 | $845 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 30 | $516 |
| Pfizer | 20 | $366 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 22 | $344 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 22 | $342 |
| Amgen | 19 | $292 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 15 | $275 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $243 |
| Abbott | 10 | $189 |
| Bayer | 10 | $178 |
| Merck | 11 | $173 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 10 | $170 |
| Welch Allyn | 1 | $157 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $142 |
| Novartis | 8 | $122 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $119 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 6 | $118 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $77 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $75 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 3 | $51 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Vistapharm, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Valeritas, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$8,700 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,216 internal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 77 | $95,067 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 54 | $60,207 |
| EliquisApixaban | 70 | $54,537 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 57 | $49,269 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 47 | $30,460 |
| Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide | 14 | $22,871 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 21 | $20,872 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 19 | $20,504 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 11 | $14,323 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 22 | $13,105 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 18 | $10,552 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 12 | $5,939 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 243 | $5,384 |
| Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide | 11 | $5,356 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 524 | $5,350 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $868 | $95,06777 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $516 | $60,20754 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $366 | $54,53770 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort | $1,429 | $53,95574 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta | $845 | $44,78358 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta | $342 | $26,81033 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33 | $77 | $22,87114 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $243 | $20,50419 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $275 | $10,55218 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $344 | $3,24255 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.
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- Hilary TindleNashville$337K
- Harvey BowlesNashville$203K
- Jay MontgomeryNashville$174K
- Temidayo AbeNashville$113K
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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.