Who Paid My Doc
Penny Asbell
Ophthalmology Memphis, TN Medical Doctor
NPI 1063473387 CMS profile 93683
930 Madison Ave Ste 200, Memphis, TN 38163
General payments
$130,746
Research payments
$12,355
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$23,381
Through program year 2025, Penny Asbell of Memphis, TN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $130,746 across 166 general payments and $12,355 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $23,381 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 97th percentile of Ophthalmology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
12 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $6,732 | 18 | |
| 2025 | Research | $981 | 1 | |
| 2024 | General | $27,788 | 56 | |
| 2024 | Research | $4,393 | 6 | |
| 2023 | General | $22,133 | 33 | |
| 2022 | General | $6,540 | 16 | |
| 2021 | General | $175 | 6 | |
| 2021 | Research | $2,124 | 2 | |
| 2020 | General | $53,462 | 13 | |
| 2020 | Research | $3,437 | 3 | |
| 2019 | General | $13,916 | 24 | |
| 2019 | Research | $1,420 | 2 |
Beside peers
- Penny Asbell
- Ophthalmology median
- Middle half of Ophthalmology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Penny Asbell were reported at $6,732. Among 13,034 Ophthalmology profiles paid that year, the median was $384 and the middle half received between $136 and $917.
Show as a table
| Year | Penny Asbell | Ophthalmology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $13,916 | $258 | $104–$655 | $163 |
| 2020 | $53,462 | $126 | $45–$321 | $114 |
| 2021 | $175 | $205 | $76–$534 | $132 |
| 2022 | $6,540 | $266 | $100–$678 | $149 |
| 2023 | $22,133 | $308 | $117–$745 | $160 |
| 2024 | $27,788 | $340 | $127–$846 | $164 |
| 2025 | $6,732 | $384 | $136–$917 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Records
180 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.