Taura Long, MD
Family Medicine · Hermitage, TNNPI 1962645259
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 117 payments — averaging $21.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$697
- Lilly USA, LLC$468
- AbbVie$405
- GSK$198
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$184
- Pfizer$141
- plus $455 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,548100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 30 | $697 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 27 | $468 |
| AbbVie | 19 | $405 |
| GSK | 3 | $198 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $184 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $141 |
| Exact Sciences | 5 | $87 |
| Amgen | 4 | $78 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $55 |
| Abbott | 2 | $38 |
| Bayer | 2 | $30 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$2,548 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,087 family medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 30 | $2,620 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 31 | $1,461 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 21 | $1,080 |
| Omeprazole | 42 | $1,020 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 20 | $949 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 17 | $571 |
| Losartan Potassium | 61 | $514 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 18 | $444 |
| Gabapentin | 55 | $434 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 61 | $397 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 23 | $353 |
| Ibuprofen | 13 | $329 |
| Losartan-HydrochlorothiazideLosartan/Hydrochlorothiazide | 22 | $306 |
| Lisinopril | 26 | $293 |
| Lisinopril-HydrochlorothiazideLisinopril/Hydrochlorothiazide | 20 | $290 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Hermitage
- Pierre BerryHermitage$311K
- Richard PakHermitage$17K
- Rickey ManningKnoxville$8.1M
- Kymberly MoyerGallatin$5.9M
- Natasha BallardChattanooga$5.7M
- Hina BudhwaniNashville$4.7M
- Paul WakefieldKnoxville$4.3M
- Emily HubbsKingsport$2.8M
- Jerry PunchKnoxville$2.1M
- Bridgette FraneyNashville$2M
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.