RxDoctor Payments Data

Shane Kelley, MD

Internal Medicine · Knoxville, TNNPI 1891007605

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,684in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 826 payments — averaging $14.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$2K
  • GSK$1K
  • Pfizer$1K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$772
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$732
  • plus $5K from 38 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$11,672100%
  • Education$120%

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

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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.

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

$11,684 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$166,907
Medicare patients
311
Services billed
6,435

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban128$122,370
OzempicSemaglutide66$100,926
JardianceEmpagliflozin71$82,077
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter59$71,711
MounjaroTirzepatide51$64,170
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol42$48,920
XareltoRivaroxaban34$37,494
RybelsusSemaglutide22$37,114
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate16$24,642
MyrbetriqMirabegron18$21,654
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf61$13,979
TrulicityDulaglutide12$13,142
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog23$12,380
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol13$11,940
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec20$11,825

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$1,625$138,04088 claims
PfizerEliquis$1,302$122,370128 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Shingrix, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$1,360$108,535149 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$772$82,07771 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$317$77,31363 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$611$53,84855 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$50$37,49434 claims
MerckJanuvia$136$24,64216 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$296$21,65418 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$81$10,30715 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$1,288$6,773105 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.

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