Has Willie Anderson received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $25,979 in general payments to Willie Anderson across 393 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Willie Anderson did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Willie Anderson come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Willie Anderson

Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology · Johnson City, TNNPI 1851448476

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 49 manufacturers reported payments, led by Livanova USA, Inc. at 47.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $9,328 and has fallen 63.5% since, to $3,401 in 2025.

$25,979in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 393 payments — averaging $66.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Livanova USA, Inc.$12K
Tris Pharma Inc$7K
UCB, Inc.$2K
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$684
Neurelis, Inc.$681
Greenwich Biosciences, Inc.$673
plus $3K from 43 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$11,04243%
Travel & lodging$4,02515%
Food & beverage$10,85442%
Education$390%
Gifts$200%

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
Livanova USA, Inc.	59	$12,343
Tris Pharma Inc	37	$6,758
UCB, Inc.	77	$1,741
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	21	$684
Neurelis, Inc.	25	$681
Greenwich Biosciences, Inc.	21	$673
Eisai Inc.	34	$630
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	21	$458
Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc.	11	$216
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$124
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	7	$116
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	5	$113
Immedica Pharma US, Inc.	4	$112
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	4	$96
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$83
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$80
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$70
Neos Therapeutics, LP	4	$68
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, LLC	3	$64
Dexcom, Inc.	3	$63
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	3	$60
Aucta Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$55
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	3	$50
Zealand Pharma US, Inc.	2	$49
Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$44
Piramal Critical Care	2	$44
AbbVie(2 entities)	2	$39
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$37
Sanofi	2	$35
Lilly USA, LLC	2	$33
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	2	$31
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$30
Zogenix Inc.	2	$30
Tolmar, Inc.	1	$27
Biocodex, Inc.	1	$23
Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc	1	$22
Lundbeck LLC	1	$21
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	1	$21
Biogen	1	$20
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$17
Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc.	1	$15
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	1	$15
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$15
QOL Medical, LLC	1	$14
Albireo Pharma, Inc.	1	$14
Eton Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$13
AstraZeneca	1	$12
Shire North American Group Inc	1	$11
Adlon Therapeutics L.p.	1	$11

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.

VNS THERAPY SENTIVA MODEL 1000 GENERATOR$7,397
Dyanavel XR$5,997
VNS Therapy$3,637
VNS - Sentiva$368
Epidiolex$268
Fycompa$125
APTIOM$124

How this compares

$25,979 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 47 neurology with special qualifications in child neurology providers in Tennessee.

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Other neurology with special qualifications in child neurology in Johnson City

Devin JohnsonJohnson City$2K
Jesus Pina GarzaNashville$1.4M
James WhelessMemphis$1.2M
Richard FinkelMemphis$353K
Jeffrey NeulNashville$127K
Thomas IrelandChattanooga$120K
James FryNashville$80K
William BurnetteNashville$23K
Cary FuNashville$19K
Kathleen Nicole JalandoniMemphis$15K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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