Temidayo Abe, MD
Internal Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1366947798
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $100,000 of the $112,741 with a category attached, or 88.7%. Merck accounts for 88.7% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $106,363, more than ten times the $1,624 reported in 2022. Among internal medicine clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 118 payments — averaging $955.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$100K
- Medtronic$5K
- Abbott$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$1K
- Biotronik Inc.$843
- plus $797 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$100,00089%
- Travel & lodging$7,4567%
- Food & beverage$5,1245%
- Education$1610%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 3 | $100,000 |
| Medtronic | 48 | $5,104 |
| Abbott | 30 | $3,598 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $1,329 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 11 | $1,070 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 14 | $843 |
| Amgen | 2 | $240 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $233 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $127 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $78 |
| Boston Scientific | 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.
- Carto 3$1,997
- GALLANT$1,928
- EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$764
- ENSITE PRECISION$725
- Micra$266
- Repatha$240
- ZIO XT Patch$233
- Zio monitor$233
- KENGREAL$100
How this compares
$112,741 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,216 internal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 13 | $7,596 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Nashville
- John AndersonNashville$1.5M
- Wayne RileyNashville$86K
- Leah CordovezNashville$64K
- Asad Al AboudNashville$44K
- Mark KouryNashville$41K
- David HeusinkveldNashville$24K
- Charlotte LohreyNashville$19K
- Malek Al-OmaryNashville$18K
- James GekasNashville$17K
- William LizarragaNashville$16K
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.