Titilola Akhigbe, MD
Rheumatology · Memphis, TNNPI 1437350816
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 296 payments — averaging $20.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$1K
- AbbVie$1K
- ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$470
- UCB, Inc.$459
- Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$389
- GSK$342
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,080100%
- Education$180%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 75 | $1,382 |
| AbbVie | 69 | $1,030 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 18 | $470 |
| UCB, Inc. | 16 | $459 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 6 | $389 |
| GSK | 14 | $342 |
| Pfizer | 17 | $331 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 14 | $288 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $263 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 13 | $250 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 9 | $209 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 8 | $139 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $139 |
| Organon | 4 | $81 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $80 |
| Novartis | 2 | $60 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $54 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 3 | $48 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $17 |
| Tonix Medicines, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- LUPKYNIS$260
- SIMPONI ARIA$121
- Tremfya$121
How this compares
$6,098 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 127 rheumatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 146 | $5,381 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 83 | $2,508 |
| Leflunomide | 35 | $1,703 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 15 | $1,246 |
| Prednisone | 110 | $1,052 |
| Sulfasalazine | 32 | $540 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 12 | $328 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 16 | $268 |
| Celecoxib | 19 | $191 |
| Methylprednisolone | 22 | $179 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other rheumatology in Memphis
- Ramesh GuptaMemphis$5.5M
- Debendra PattanaikMemphis$329K
- Raza HashmiMemphis$17K
- Alisha GuptaMemphis$9K
- Vaishnavi PulusaniMemphis$9K
- Jacob AelionJackson$13.2M
- Joseph HuffstutterHixson$832K
- Marcus OwenMurfreesboro$594K
- Brett SmithKnoxville$587K
- Satish OdhavJackson$527K
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.