RxDoctor Payments Data

Siddharama Pawate, MD

Neurology · Nashville, TNNPI 1336296169

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (44.4%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Amgen at 24.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $13,074 and has fallen 55.6% since, to $5,809 in 2025.

$27,215in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $877.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$7K
  • F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$7K
  • Biogen$6K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$5K
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$2K
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$869
  • plus $273 from 3 others
$2,007,458in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 136 payments — averaging $14,761 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.

  • Genentech, Inc.$1.9M
  • Biogen$120K
  • F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$16K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$12,08544%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$6,50024%
  • Travel & lodging$7,53528%
  • Food & beverage$1,0964%

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

$27,215 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 361 neurology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$26,070
Medicare patients
155
Services billed
256

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
Kesimpta PenOfatumumab115$1,202,326
AubagioTeriflunomide53$457,362
Avonex (4 Pack)Interferon Beta-1a26$210,807
MayzentSiponimod21$188,063
Rebif RebidoseInterferon Beta-1a/Albumin15$158,641
RebifInterferon Beta-1a/Albumin13$138,051
VumerityDiroximel Fumarate12$103,348
CopaxoneGlatiramer Acetate13$75,816
BafiertamMonomethyl Fumarate11$68,647
Dalfampridine ErDalfampridine76$57,950
Actemra ActpenTocilizumab11$45,716
Teriflunomide17$43,916
Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe28$27,001
Dimethyl Fumarate36$26,056
FingolimodFingolimod Hcl27$17,225

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
BiogenAvonex (4 Pack), Vumerity$6,440$314,15538 claims
NovartisMayzent$25$188,06321 claims
EMD Serono, Inc.Rebif$163$138,05113 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 85th percentile of 361 neurology providers in Tennessee.

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