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 — broken down below by congressional district and county, plus who paid and who got paid. ‹ Back to the national map

$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

2018–2024 reported payments, from Civly's loaded copy of CMS Open Payments. A payment is a disclosure, not an accusation.

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.