Valerie Defoor, APRN
Nurse Practitioner · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1356122394
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 57 payments — averaging $63.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Medtronic$160
- Pfizer$74
- Boehringer Ingelheim$70
- Merck$70
- plus $276 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$201%
- Travel & lodging$1,86852%
- Food & beverage$1,73448%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 15 | $1,749 |
| Boston Scientific | 15 | $1,223 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $160 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $74 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $70 |
| Merck | 3 | $70 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 2 | $41 |
| Novartis | 2 | $39 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $28 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Eko Health, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Amgen | 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.
- NAVITOR$1,303
- WATCHMAN Access System$910
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$141
How this compares
$3,622 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 12 | $11,152 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 25 | $335 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 20 | $182 |
| Spironolactone | 27 | $145 |
| Losartan Potassium | 19 | $129 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 15 | $123 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 18 | $107 |
| Potassium Chloride | 13 | $77 |
| Furosemide | 30 | $67 |
| Carvedilol | 12 | $29 |
| Amoxicillin | 14 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Chattanooga
- Cynthia WilsonChattanooga$62K
- Honor HightshueChattanooga$45K
- Amy OttmanChattanooga$32K
- Philip AndrewsChattanooga$18K
- Amberly EllisChattanooga$17K
- Erin StockwellChattanooga$15K
- Teresa DeeseChattanooga$13K
- Jay PassmoreChattanooga$13K
- Amy HatcherMurfreesboro$1.1M
- Karen RodenKnoxville$265K
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.