Psychiatric/Mental Health, Adult in Tennessee
13 providers, $9,751 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 psychiatric/mental health, adult clinicians in Tennessee
Across 4 psychiatric/mental health, adult clinicians in Tennessee who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $60,342 in total — an average of $15,086 each, of which $15,086 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
- 1Vicki ParisJackson$3,279
- 2Jennifer BettsNashville$2,567
- 3Scott FarrisKnoxville$1,439
- 4Susan SwansonNashville$581
- 5Clayton MarrsChattanooga$465
- 6Stephen HaileJohnson City$343
- 7Will ColtharpFranklin$343
- 8Charlotte TunnellKnoxville$285
- 9Anita WaidMemphis$185
- 10Brian BrownJackson$111
- 11Wendy WilsonNashville$72
- 12Patricia CunninghamMemphis$49
- 13Lisa BlevinsJohnson City$34