Terry Shepherd
Urology · Knoxville, TNNPI 1417943705
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 122 payments — averaging $16.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Myovant Sciences Inc.$331
- Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$283
- Amgen$236
- Johnson & Johnson$124
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$118
- Urovant Sciences Inc$112
- plus $771 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,95099%
- Education$251%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 23 | $331 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 13 | $283 |
| Amgen | 18 | $236 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $124 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 7 | $118 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 5 | $112 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $99 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $96 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $69 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $67 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $65 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 4 | $58 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Merck | 2 | $42 |
| Bayer | 2 | $35 |
| Neotract Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Coloplast | 2 | $25 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Profound Medical Corp. | 1 | $14 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $14 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,975 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 276 urology providers in Tennessee.
Other urology in Knoxville
- James BienvenuKnoxville$243K
- Paul HatcherKnoxville$155K
- Edward KimKnoxville$52K
- Ryan PickensKnoxville$26K
- Wesley WhiteKnoxville$24K
- Timothy LeroyKnoxville$18K
- Gautam JayramNashville$16.1M
- David MorrisHendersonville$7.3M
- David PensonNashville$4.4M
- L KnollNashville$2.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.