Rebekah Sprouse, MD
Hospitalist · Cookeville, TNNPI 1396056164
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 51 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 16 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 11.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $512 and has fallen 91.0% since, to $46 in 2025.
Across 51 payments — averaging $17.38 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$106
- Novartis$100
- Johnson & Johnson$85
- AstraZeneca$84
- Pfizer$82
- AbbVie$82
- plus $347 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$886100%
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 | 6 | $106 |
| Novartis | 6 | $100 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $85 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 4 | $84 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $82 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $82 |
| Merck | 5 | $75 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $63 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $58 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $44 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $21 |
| Bioxcel Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $19 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $18 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$886 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 349 hospitalist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diltiazem Hcl | 17 | $214 |
| Omeprazole | 24 | $121 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 14 | $103 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 20 | $78 |
| Lisinopril | 14 | $65 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 24 | $54 |
| Furosemide | 27 | $35 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 13 | $27 |
| Metformin Hcl | 11 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hospitalist in Cookeville
- Gerald OnuohaNashville$37K
- Sunil KripalaniNashville$23K
- Ankur SethMemphis$13K
- Eugene ScobeyMemphis$6K
- Monico BanezJackson$6K
- Omar AlsharifKnoxville$6K
- Matthew JosephNashville$5K
- Courtney TafesseMurfreesboro$5K
- Arnel PaneloNashville$5K
- Ravi MishraNashville$5K
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.