Occupational Medicine in Tennessee
14 providers, $12,800 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 occupational medicine clinicians in Tennessee
Across 1 occupational medicine clinicians in Tennessee who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,492 in total — an average of $2,492 each, of which $2,492 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
- 1Ibrahim HeibaKingsport$9,903
- 2Marc WatkinsNashville$1,352
- 3Sylvia OnyensohMc Kenzie$859
- 4William StewartFranklin$281
- 5William DuttonNashville$215
- 6Samuel BreedingKingsport$45
- 7Sangita ChakrabartyMurfreesboro$28
- 8Terri WalkerSmyrna$26
- 9Muktar AliyuNashville$22
- 10Bruce BerryGreeneville$18
- 11Bruce RandolphMemphis$15
- 12Timothy OeschOak Ridge$13
- 13Robert CarverMadison$12
- 14Richard PriceNashville$11