Robert Herring
Gastroenterology · Nashville, TNNPI 1043219165
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,078 payments — averaging $3006.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$1.2M
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$616K
- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$584K
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$305K
- AbbVie$280K
- Pfizer$95K
- plus $160K from 18 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $174.41 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Gilead$1K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,96597%
- Education$1363%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 185 | $1,201,213 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 112 | $615,629 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 20 | $584,097 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 44 | $304,756 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 160 | $279,730 |
| Pfizer | 15 | $94,833 |
| Novo Nordisk AS | 386 | $91,520 |
| Intercept Pharma Europe Ltd. | 4 | $32,807 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 13 | $16,966 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $14,907 |
| Ferring International Pharmascience Center US | 2 | $1,500 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 72 | $1,074 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $600 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 30 | $476 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $137 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 6 | $83 |
| Shionogi Inc | 5 | $80 |
| Merck | 4 | $77 |
| UCB, Inc. | 6 | $73 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Concordia Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$3,240,660 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 336 gastroenterology providers in Tennessee.
Other gastroenterology in Nashville
- Dawn Borromeo BeaulieuNashville$2.1M
- David SchwartzNashville$1.4M
- Baldeep PablaNashville$1.2M
- Sara HorstNashville$1.2M
- Michael PoraykoNashville$870K
- Saras SharmaNashville$870K
- Robin DalalNashville$847K
- Michael VaeziNashville$796K
- Stephanie PointerNashville$766K
- Dawn AdamsNashville$673K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.