Stephen Strickland, MD
Hematology · Nashville, TNNPI 1639226517
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 750 payments — averaging $4447.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$1.1M
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$738K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$320K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$320K
- Astellas Pharma Global Development$304K
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$224K
- plus $288K from 21 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $796.62 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.
- Novartis Pharma AG$5K
- Novartis$2K
- Astellas Pharma Global Development$1K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$602
- Stemline Therapeutics Inc.$225
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$86,94473%
- Speaking & faculty fees$17,60015%
- Travel & lodging$9,7348%
- Food & beverage$5,3995%
- Education$170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 48 | $1,141,276 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 36 | $737,571 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 49 | $320,422 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 66 | $320,102 |
| Astellas Pharma Global Development | 63 | $304,334 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 230 | $224,238 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 99 | $114,097 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 34 | $69,657 |
| AbbVie | 55 | $56,462 |
| GSK | 16 | $20,705 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 5 | $8,250 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $5,514 |
| Incyte Corporation | 8 | $5,432 |
| Novartis Pharma AG | 3 | $3,023 |
| Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $2,451 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 8 | $1,115 |
| Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation | 3 | $356 |
| Amgen | 1 | $122 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $106 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $102 |
| Legend Biotech USA Inc. | 3 | $87 |
| Gilead | 1 | $80 |
| Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $78 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 1 | $36 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $23 |
| Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
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
$3,335,677 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 23 hematology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| IclusigPonatinib Hcl | 16 | $424,594 |
| OnuregAzacitidine | 11 | $278,148 |
| SprycelDasatinib | 14 | $138,351 |
| VenclextaVenetoclax | 27 | $133,791 |
| InqoviDecitabine/Cedazuridine | 13 | $106,813 |
| Acyclovir | 11 | $177 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Iclusig | $320,102 | $424,59416 claims |
| AbbVieVenclexta | $56,462 | $133,79127 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 95th percentile of 23 hematology providers in Tennessee.
Other hematology in Nashville
- Michael SavonaNashville$16.3M
- Michael ByrneNashville$2.3M
- Robert CornellNashville$1.6M
- Ashwin KishtagariNashville$617K
- Stacey GoodmanNashville$142K
- Navneet MajhailNashville$72K
- Adetola KassimNashville$58K
- Kateryna FedorovNashville$12K
- Wesam AhmedNashville$12K
- Anne NeffNashville$9K
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.