Tiffany Steelman
Nurse Practitioner · Knoxville, TNNPI 1073783130
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.9% of the total across 1,084 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 35 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among nurse practitioner 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 1,084 payments — averaging $19.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$4K
- Amgen$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- AstraZeneca$2K
- UCB, Inc.$2K
- Novartis$1K
- plus $7K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$20,76898%
- Education$4462%
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 | 262 | $3,865 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 189 | $3,709 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 82 | $1,806 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 64 | $1,659 |
| UCB, Inc. | 86 | $1,650 |
| Novartis | 85 | $1,355 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 49 | $1,136 |
| Sanofi | 23 | $1,075 |
| GSK | 59 | $1,033 |
| Pfizer | 42 | $814 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 21 | $503 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 22 | $395 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 14 | $345 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 18 | $342 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 13 | $286 |
| Sobi, Inc | 10 | $193 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $144 |
| Organon | 8 | $128 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 5 | $96 |
| Sandoz | 4 | $90 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 3 | $51 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $46 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $26 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $24 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$21,213 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,662 nurse practitioner 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enbrel SureclickEtanercept | 45 | $313,777 |
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 20 | $162,649 |
| EnbrelEtanercept | 22 | $161,432 |
| Humira(Cf)Adalimumab | 23 | $155,535 |
| Taltz AutoinjectorIxekizumab | 13 | $90,873 |
| Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate | 13 | $84,970 |
| KineretAnakinra | 11 | $60,243 |
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 264 | $10,920 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 333 | $10,264 |
| Leflunomide | 76 | $6,465 |
| Colchicine | 18 | $2,468 |
| Sulfasalazine DrSulfasalazine | 71 | $1,688 |
| Celecoxib | 78 | $1,453 |
| Prednisone | 185 | $1,395 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 16 | $1,203 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AmgenEnbrel | $3,709 | $161,43222 claims |
| AbbVieHumira(Cf) | $3,865 | $155,53523 claims |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Colchicine | $33 | $2,46818 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 2,662 nurse practitioner providers in Tennessee.
Other nurse practitioner in Knoxville
- Karen RodenKnoxville$265K
- Erica HembreeKnoxville$125K
- Robin LovedayKnoxville$56K
- Jennifer BerryKnoxville$19K
- Erica HillKnoxville$13K
- Amy HatcherMurfreesboro$1.1M
- Susan UtleyNashville$194K
- Whitney EricksonMemphis$159K
- Brooke FaughtNashville$87K
- Lauren WelchNashville$71K
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.