Richard Bock
Physician Assistant · Knoxville, TNNPI 1194793679
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 340 payments — averaging $15.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$925
- Novo Nordisk$581
- GSK$545
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$274
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$235
- Bayer$232
- plus $3K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,24498%
- Education$942%
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 | 76 | $925 |
| Novo Nordisk | 32 | $581 |
| GSK | 39 | $545 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 17 | $274 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 14 | $235 |
| Bayer | 16 | $232 |
| Abbott | 14 | $232 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 14 | $227 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $197 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 13 | $172 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $165 |
| Amgen | 10 | $157 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $150 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $149 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $136 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $109 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $105 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 6 | $99 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $90 |
| Merck | 4 | $67 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 4 | $57 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $51 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $40 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $34 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 1 | $30 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 3 | $29 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $11 |
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
$5,338 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,404 physician assistant providers in Tennessee.
Other physician assistant in Knoxville
- Lindsey NixKnoxville$576K
- Katherine RunyanKnoxville$156K
- Kevin BlazerKnoxville$20K
- Meghan ShotwellKnoxville$18K
- Timothy VanceKnoxville$13K
- Danielle WarrenKnoxville$11K
- Anna KerseySavannah$399K
- Jason HenryNashville$329K
- Brie ChandlerNashville$317K
- Loree EasleyBartlett$209K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.