Shirisha Vallepu
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Cookeville, TNNPI 1548767015
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 43 payments — averaging $28.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.$189
- Lilly USA, LLC$174
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$144
- Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$141
- Cequr Corporation$113
- Boehringer Ingelheim$88
- plus $384 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,234100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 5 | $189 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $174 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $144 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $141 |
| Cequr Corporation | 2 | $113 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $88 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $74 |
| Bayer | 1 | $65 |
| BETA Bionics, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $38 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Amgen | 1 | $24 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $21 |
| Abbott | 1 | $17 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| BD | 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.
- GVOKE HYPOPEN$126
- SOLIQUA 100/33$112
- CeQur Simplicity$104
How this compares
$1,234 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 130 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Tennessee.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 324 | $382,065 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 257 | $291,433 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 206 | $183,949 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 73 | $97,087 |
| Humulin R U-500 KwikpenInsulin Regular, Human | 31 | $58,690 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 78 | $40,186 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 30 | $30,242 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 52 | $29,592 |
| Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | 35 | $25,528 |
| KerendiaFinerenone | 25 | $20,563 |
| Trijardy XrEmpaglifloz/Linaglip/Metformin | 21 | $19,894 |
| BaqsimiGlucagon | 29 | $18,777 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 22 | $17,920 |
| Omnipod 5 Dexg7g6 Pods (Gen 5)Insulin Pump Cart,auto,bt,g6/7 | 14 | $17,766 |
| Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 17 | $16,467 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity, Baqsimi, Humalog | $174 | $437,630424 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Novolog | $74 | $295,631270 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy Xr, Trijardy Xr, Tradjenta | $88 | $247,291284 claims |
| BayerKerendia | $65 | $20,56325 claims |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCUnithroid, Levothyroxine Sodium | $32 | $5,161188 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 30th percentile of 130 endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism providers in Tennessee.
Other endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism in Cookeville
- Stephen SharpNashville$25.9M
- Lisa UsdanMemphis$14.3M
- Kathryn DahirNashville$11M
- David HuffmanChattanooga$2.4M
- Pedro VelasquezMemphis$2.4M
- Craig WierumNashville$1.7M
- Alan CohenMemphis$1.5M
- Terri JerkinsNashville$1.2M
- Pascal DauphinHendersonville$925K
- Aidar GosmanovMemphis$833K
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.