Valerie Oconnell, PA
Physician Assistant · Lebanon, TNNPI 1437438926
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 92.2% of the total across 528 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 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among physician assistant 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 528 payments — averaging $20.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Lilly USA, LLC$1K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$1K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$876
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$842
- plus $3K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$10,07192%
- Education$8488%
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(2 entities) | 89 | $1,682 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 69 | $1,477 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 54 | $1,428 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 75 | $1,271 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 47 | $876 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 42 | $842 |
| Sanofi | 22 | $499 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 21 | $415 |
| Amgen | 16 | $402 |
| Pfizer | 23 | $303 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 13 | $267 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 8 | $253 |
| UCB, Inc. | 9 | $242 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $171 |
| Incyte Corporation | 8 | $163 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 3 | $116 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 5 | $103 |
| Novartis | 4 | $102 |
| Organon | 8 | $88 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $64 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $14 |
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
$10,919 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dupixent SyringeDupilumab | 12 | $44,516 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 134 | $5,114 |
| Ketoconazole | 166 | $3,735 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 114 | $1,433 |
| Fluorouracil | 13 | $1,123 |
| Metronidazole | 21 | $1,062 |
| Tacrolimus | 11 | $1,021 |
| Mupirocin | 89 | $757 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 33 | $676 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 42 | $592 |
| Hydrocortisone | 83 | $496 |
| Desonide | 11 | $281 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 13 | $140 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $139 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 11 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Lebanon
- Lindsey NixKnoxville$576K
- Anna KerseySavannah$399K
- Brie ChandlerNashville$317K
- Loree EasleyBartlett$187K
- Katherine RunyanKnoxville$156K
- Robert LaughertyAlcoa$122K
- Elisabeth BennettNashville$109K
- John KramerNashville$109K
- Whitney GatewoodMemphis$104K
- Nicholas BarkemeyerNashville$85K
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.