Addiction Psychiatry in Tennessee
8 providers, $15,926 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays addiction psychiatry clinicians in Tennessee
Across 3 addiction psychiatry clinicians in Tennessee who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $24,547 in total — an average of $8,182 each, of which $8,182 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1John RobertsonKnoxville$14,064
- 2Seth ThompsonJohnson City$527
- 3Lalitha VaddadiMemphis$427
- 4Leiberh DiazMemphis$386
- 5Michael PattersonBartlett$292
- 6Howard BurleyNashville$111
- 7Majd AlsayedNashville$89
- 8Mariah SmithNashville$29