Spencer Pugh, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Knoxville, TNNPI 1003294992
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 171 payments — averaging $25.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$767
- GSK$503
- Amgen$309
- Boehringer Ingelheim$292
- Intuitive Surgical$255
- Merck$222
- plus $2K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2385%
- Food & beverage$4,13294%
- Education$491%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 30 | $767 |
| GSK | 25 | $503 |
| Amgen | 5 | $309 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 15 | $292 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $255 |
| Merck | 11 | $222 |
| Sanofi | 8 | $211 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 8 | $202 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 9 | $183 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $147 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 7 | $145 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 5 | $136 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $134 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 4 | $131 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 4 | $82 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $68 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 2 | $58 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 3 | $49 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 2 | $45 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $39 |
| Circassia Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Novartis | 2 | $37 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $34 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $26 |
| Bayer | 1 | $21 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Resmed Corp | 1 | $17 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $16 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $13 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- TEZSPIRE$364
- Da Vinci Surgical System$232
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$147
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$147
- FASENRA$125
- ACTHAR$121
How this compares
$4,419 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 339 pulmonary disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 119 | $89,601 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 52 | $38,895 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 31 | $23,201 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 33 | $18,268 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 43 | $11,923 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 14 | $11,350 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 17 | $8,404 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 141 | $4,176 |
| Roflumilast | 25 | $1,356 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 32 | $762 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 11 | $630 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 18 | $392 |
| Prednisone | 50 | $329 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 18 | $291 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $503 | $116,273169 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Symbicort | $767 | $50,81995 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimStiolto Respimat, Spiriva Respimat | $292 | $34,55145 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 50th percentile of 339 pulmonary disease providers in Tennessee.
Other pulmonary disease in Knoxville
- John SwisherKnoxville$2.3M
- Eric WeaverKnoxville$492K
- Rajiv DhandKnoxville$426K
- John CallisonKnoxville$324K
- John PrinceKnoxville$117K
- Isaac BineyKnoxville$73K
- Varun ShahKnoxville$64K
- Benjamin BevillKnoxville$31K
- Bashar BargotyKnoxville$28K
- Zulma SwankKnoxville$24K
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.