Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Ross Nesbit

Nephrology Knoxville, TN Medical Doctor

NPI 1386870475 CMS profile 630442

1932 Alcoa Hwy, Suite C-460, Knoxville, TN 37920

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General payments

$452,285

1,093 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Ross Nesbit of Knoxville, TN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $452,285 across 1,093 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Nephrology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $62,203 180
2024 General $69,071 177
2023 General $56,428 136
2022 General $109,313 189
2021 General $81,854 163
2020 General $25,365 93
2019 General $48,052 155

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Ross Nesbit
  • Nephrology median
  • Middle half of Nephrology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Ross Nesbit were reported at $62,203. Among 8,186 Nephrology profiles paid that year, the median was $310 and the middle half received between $104 and $880.

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Year Ross Nesbit Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $48,052 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $25,365 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $81,854 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $109,313 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $56,428 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $69,071 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $62,203 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $130,156 238 payments
  2. Relypsa, Inc. $111,627 204 payments
  3. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $101,485 142 payments
  4. Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. $58,527 76 payments
  5. Akebia Therapeutics Inc $22,407 56 payments
  6. Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. $17,986 35 payments
  7. Amgen Inc. $1,364 70 payments
  8. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $1,315 2 payments
  9. Scpharmaceuticals Inc. $1,217 2 payments
  10. Cipla USA Inc. $1,000 4 payments
  11. Other $5,201 264 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $343,296 214 payments
  2. Honoraria $50,113 20 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $29,529 157 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $19,745 681 payments
  5. Consulting Fee $9,331 10 payments
  6. Education $272 11 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. FARXIGA $129,635 206 payments
  2. Kerendia $101,485 142 payments
  3. Veltassa Hyperkalemia $70,935 131 payments
  4. Veltassa Hyperkalemia $34,873 57 payments
  5. TARPEYO Nephrology $32,842 39 payments
  6. TARPEYO Nephrology $25,663 36 payments
  7. Vafseo $22,161 43 payments
  8. LUPKYNIS $17,986 35 payments
  9. Korsuva $4,141 5 payments
  10. Veltassa Nephrology $3,071 8 payments
  11. Other $10,216 361 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 43 drugs

Part D claims

1,800

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$432,135

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

22.3%

Median for Nephrology: 17.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Everolimus Generic 13 $117,613
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 92 $73,854
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 69 $67,813
Kerendia Finerenone Brand 59 $39,804
Velphoro Sucroferric Oxyhydroxide Brand 13 $34,812
Veltassa Patiromer Calcium Sorbitex Brand 28 $30,493
Auryxia Ferric Citrate Brand 15 $26,725
Procrit Epoetin Alfa Brand 13 $8,823
Renvela Sevelamer Carbonate Brand 12 $6,319
Calcium Acetate Generic 49 $2,985

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 43 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 9,003 Part D prescribers listed as Nephrology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 27 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$211,864

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

649

Average age 72

Services billed

2,816

281 women, 368 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Chronic kidney disease 75%
Diabetes 57%
Arthritis 46%
Ischemic heart disease 43%
Heart failure 36%
Atrial fibrillation 31%
Depression 28%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 21 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
TARPEYO
$25,595 — —
Kerendia
$23,184 59 —
FARXIGA
$16,274 69 —
Veltassa
$1,328 28 —
FUROSCIX
$1,200 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

1,093 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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