Sara Kaniper, PA
Surgical · Knoxville, TNNPI 1407329923
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $959 of the $1,484 with a category attached, or 64.6%. Getinge USA Sales, LLC accounts for 78.9% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $792, 2.7 times the $289 reported in 2021.
Across 32 payments — averaging $46.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$1K
- Abiomed$102
- Johnson & Johnson$57
- Atricure, Inc.$49
- Convatec Inc.$30
- Medtronic$26
- plus $50 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$52635%
- Food & beverage$95965%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 23 | $1,172 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $102 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $57 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $26 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Vasoview Hemopro 2$526
- Impella$102
How this compares
$1,484 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 206 surgical 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 21 | $133 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 14 | $100 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 29 | $89 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 12 | $65 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 16 | $59 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical in Knoxville
- Jennie ClarkKnoxville$5K
- Christopher DalbyKnoxville$4K
- Kristen PriceKnoxville$3K
- Zachary SwansonKnoxville$2K
- Matthew GreinerKnoxville$2K
- Cody FieldsKnoxville$2K
- Cynthia HaneyKnoxville$2K
- Adam BuzzerdKnoxville$2K
- Jodi JansKnoxville$1K
- Robert AustinKnoxville$1K
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.