Has Sydney Younts received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,798 in general payments to Sydney Younts across 378 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Sydney Younts did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Sydney Younts come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Sydney Younts

Physician Assistant · Johnson City, TNNPI 1649947383

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,798in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 378 payments — averaging $15.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$1K
Novo Nordisk$1K
Lilly USA, LLC$546
AstraZeneca$532
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$306
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$270
plus $2K from 37 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$5,75399%
Education$451%

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
AbbVie	85	$1,046
Novo Nordisk	75	$1,015
Lilly USA, LLC	31	$546
AstraZeneca	30	$532
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	19	$306
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	16	$270
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	10	$181
Bausch Health US, LLC	9	$163
Lundbeck LLC	10	$152
Dexcom, Inc.	8	$141
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$100
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	5	$95
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$85
Novartis	4	$78
Exact Sciences	5	$78
Amgen	6	$77
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	4	$75
Merck	4	$73
Antares Pharma, Inc.	5	$71
Mylan Specialty L.p.	5	$69
Pfizer	3	$53
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	3	$50
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	2	$50
Inogen, Inc.	3	$45
Tris Pharma Inc	2	$38
Shield Therapeutics Inc	2	$38
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$36
Almatica Pharma LLC	2	$34
Johnson & Johnson	2	$31
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$31
Astellas Pharma US Inc	1	$30
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$25
Ardelyx, Inc.	1	$24
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$20
Sanofi	1	$18
Alkermes, Inc.	1	$18
Bayer	1	$17
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$16
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	1	$15
Halozyme Inc	1	$14
Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC	1	$14
IBSA Pharma Inc.	1	$14
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA	1	$14

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.

Ozempic$125

How this compares

$5,798 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,404 physician assistant providers in Tennessee.

See all physician assistant providers in Tennessee →

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	19	$498
Tizanidine Hcl	13	$247
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	11	$197
Oxycodone Hcl	11	$196
Gabapentin	24	$193
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	16	$191
Fluticasone Propionate	15	$174
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst	17	$155
Cefdinir	12	$148
Levothyroxine Sodium	24	$115
Methylprednisolone	22	$104
Azithromycin	11	$82
Losartan Potassium	11	$80
Alprazolam	16	$57
Amlodipine Besylate	15	$36

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physician assistant in Johnson City

Lindsey NixKnoxville$576K
Anna KerseySavannah$399K
Jason HenryNashville$329K
Brie ChandlerNashville$317K
Loree EasleyBartlett$209K
Katherine RunyanKnoxville$156K
John KramerNashville$125K
Robert LaughertyAlcoa$122K
Elisabeth BennettNashville$109K
Whitney GatewoodMemphis$104K

See the full list for Tennessee →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →