Tess McKinney
Physician Assistant · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1922687821
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 21 payments — averaging $22.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$123
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$110
- AbbVie$76
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$43
- Biogen$23
- Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$22
- plus $78 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$474100%
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.
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 | 5 | $123 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $110 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $76 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $43 |
| Biogen | 1 | $23 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $19 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
How this compares
$474 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 2,404 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil | 26 | $402 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 31 | $157 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $83 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 31 | $81 |
| Cephalexin | 11 | $35 |
| Naproxen | 14 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Chattanooga
- Gena ThompsonChattanooga$13K
- Danielle CiabattoneChattanooga$12K
- Lindsey NixKnoxville$576K
- Anna KerseySavannah$399K
- Jason HenryNashville$329K
- Brie ChandlerNashville$317K
- Loree EasleyBartlett$209K
- Katherine RunyanKnoxville$156K
- John KramerNashville$125K
- Robert LaughertyAlcoa$122K
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.