Hospice and Palliative Medicine in Tennessee
34 providers, $108,406 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $142.
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 hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in Tennessee
Across 19 hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in Tennessee who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $766,082 in total — an average of $40,320 each, of which $40,320 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
- 1William JacksonGermantown$93,275
- 2Barton SandersNashville$3,660
- 3Debra LyonsColumbia$2,597
- 4Sandhya MudumbiNashville$1,575
- 5Melody CunninghamMemphis$1,540
- 6Ashley FedusenkoChattanooga$716
- 7Gina WaltonMemphis$620
- 8Maribeth BosshardtChattanooga$586
- 9Christina Macmurdo-FranceNashville$518
- 10William MullinaxCollierville$518
- 11Matthew RobinsonMemphis$501
- 12Ashley WrightMemphis$370
- 13Nikkalynn DelaurentisClarksville$357
- 14Clint SeymourMemphis$353
- 15Joseph BlytheMemphis$173
- 16Joseph SimpsonKnoxville$142
- 17Lynnette OsterlundKnoxville$142
- 18Joseph WeemsMemphis$133
- 19Steven BaumruckerKingsport$73
- 20Marc RothmanNashville$72
- 21Kevin ChildersGallatin$68
- 22Evelyne DavidsonKnoxville$64
- 23Samuel WebbThompsons Station$64
- 24Erin KippKnoxville$43
- 25Kimberly SawyerMemphis$40
- 26Jeffrey NelsonMemphis$35
- 27Stephen LasherNashville$32
- 28Stacey TillmanNashville$32
- 29Michael GoseyJohnson City$22
- 30Edward KoonceJackson$19
- 31Joshua HornsbyChattanooga$19
- 32Mira PatelChattanooga$18
- 33Michaela IbachNashville$15
- 34Karen Cole-GeorgeNashville$15