Open Payments · Tennessee

What drug & device companies paid Tennessee doctors

Between 2018 and 2024, companies reported $1.84B in payments to 44,170 Tennessee physicians and teaching hospitals. Explore totals by congressional district and county, company, and recipient. ‹ Back to the national map

Analysis by , Chief Technology Officer at Civly · built from the complete CMS Open Payments release, program years 2018–2024.

$1.84B
reported 2018–2024
44,170
physicians paid
$41,659
avg / physician
2,022
companies paying
$176M
biggest recipient

Shaded by total reported payments. Hover an area for detail; click to drill in. ZIP→area mapping covers ~98% of payments (PO-box/unique ZIPs excluded). Source: CMS Open Payments, loaded by Civly.

Who pays Tennessee doctors, and who gets paid

Reported payments for 2018–2024 from CMS Open Payments. A reported payment alone does not indicate wrongdoing.

Top payers

Drug & device companies, 2018–2024
PFIZER INC.$112M
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corpo…$96M
Medtronic, Inc.$88M
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP$75M
ABBVIE INC.$73M
Genentech, Inc.$66M
Medtronic USA, Inc.$63M
Eli Lilly and Company$58M
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC$46M
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation$45M

Biggest recipients

Tennessee physicians by total received, 2018–2024
Foley Kevin$176M
Maxwell George$41M
Freeman James$15M
Brady Paul$15M
Freeman John$11M
Charles Steve$7M
Smith Maurice$5M
Freeman Jerre$4M

Top specialties

By total received, 2018–2024
Neurological Surgery$191M
Plastic Surgery$43M
Orthopaedic Surgery$37M
Ophthalmology$37M
Internal Medicine$16M
Neurology$13M
Hematology & Oncology$13M
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Meta…$11M

By the numbers, 2018–2024

44,170

physicians and teaching hospitals took at least one payment.

$1.84B

reported across 2,704,399 individual payments.

How Tennessee compares nationally

Tennessee ranks 11th of 51 for total reported payments, with $1.84B across 2,704,399 payments from 2018 to 2024. That is 2.4% of the $78.26B reported nationwide. Payments averaged $41,659 per recipient across 44,170 physicians and teaching hospitals, close to the $41,481 national average (13th of 51 per physician). The largest payer was PFIZER INC. at $112M. The highest-paid specialty was Neurological Surgery. The largest individual recipient, Foley Kevin, received $176M across 419 payments.

#11
of 51 — total payments
#13
of 51 — per physician
2.4%
of all U.S. payments

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