Samantha Ketron
Pediatrics · Kingsport, TNNPI 1578959920
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 93 payments — averaging $19.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$400
- Corium, LLC$350
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$329
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$188
- Pfizer$113
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$87
- plus $356 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,823100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 17 | $400 |
| Corium, LLC | 15 | $350 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 17 | $329 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 11 | $188 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $113 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $87 |
| Merck | 4 | $69 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 4 | $64 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| GSK | 2 | $37 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 2 | $22 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $16 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $15 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $14 |
| ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,823 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,338 pediatrics providers in Tennessee.
Other pediatrics in Kingsport
- Joseph LeyKingsport$853K
- Donald LewisKingsport$118K
- Kimberley HuntKingsport$4K
- Clifford SeylerTullahoma$1.9M
- Nehali PatelMemphis$1.3M
- Richard GloverKnoxville$1.1M
- Laurie Harris-FordClarksville$401K
- Meghana SrinivasJohnson City$166K
- Madeline EllisGallatin$134K
- Jason JohnsonMemphis$131K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.