Wendy Zouras, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Johnson City, TNNPI 1770539868
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.5% of the total across 267 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 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 267 payments — averaging $19.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$917
- AstraZeneca$872
- Baxter Healthcare$499
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$330
- Grifols USA, LLC$295
- Boehringer Ingelheim$288
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,11197%
- Education$1843%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 72 | $917 |
| AstraZeneca | 37 | $872 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 20 | $499 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 13 | $330 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 15 | $295 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 15 | $288 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 9 | $253 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 7 | $241 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 13 | $218 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 9 | $200 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $159 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 6 | $155 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 10 | $149 |
| Sanofi | 7 | $146 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 8 | $131 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 5 | $109 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $95 |
| Inogen, Inc. | 5 | $80 |
| Amgen | 3 | $53 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Merck | 1 | $30 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $16 |
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
$5,295 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 141 critical care medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 131 | $109,241 |
| Dupixent SyringeDupilumab | 20 | $89,862 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 57 | $41,450 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 36 | $25,240 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 24 | $15,246 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 17 | $6,419 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 237 | $5,697 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 17 | $4,741 |
| Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 24 | $3,496 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 169 | $2,280 |
| Roflumilast | 13 | $1,899 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 12 | $1,883 |
| Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 18 | $1,518 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 93 | $589 |
| Prednisone | 64 | $261 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $917 | $115,661148 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Symbicort | $872 | $46,19174 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimSpiriva Respimat, Stiolto Respimat | $288 | $40,48660 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 80th percentile of 141 critical care medicine providers in Tennessee.
Other critical care medicine in Johnson City
- Badar SiddiquiJohnson City$10K
- Mitchell DeshazerJohnson City$3K
- Bipin SarodiaJohnson City$3K
- Neha NaithaniJohnson City$824
- Gordon BernardNashville$730K
- Todd RiceNashville$291K
- Jeffery NelsonMaryville$147K
- Jeremy GreenbergChattanooga$64K
- Anthony MattoxMemphis$33K
- Jamie DeneauNashville$33K
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.