Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

JOSEPH T WATLINGTON

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Nephrology

NPI
1912903121
CMS profile
86343
Location
CHATTANOOGA, TN

General Payments · PY2018–2019

$1,172.61

  • Reported across 67 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2019

$531.33

32 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2019 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $531.33 32

By paying entity

PY2019 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $641.28 35
PY2019 $531.33 32

Payment records · PY2019 (32)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2019 2018 Record-level detail is published for PY2019; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
AKEBIA THERAPEUTICS INC $21.02 01/11/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 706569821 CMS
AKEBIA THERAPEUTICS INC $8.85 03/05/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 706569829 CMS
AKEBIA THERAPEUTICS INC $17.55 05/23/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 706569823 CMS
AKEBIA THERAPEUTICS INC $2.62 07/09/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 706569825 CMS
AKEBIA THERAPEUTICS INC $19.14 07/09/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 706569827 CMS
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $14.89 01/14/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695617295 CMS
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $16.41 08/27/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695617457 CMS
Amgen Inc. $19.14 02/11/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662515799 CMS
Amgen Inc. $16.70 10/29/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662515805 CMS
Amgen Inc. $17.27 12/04/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662515809 CMS
ARBOR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. $11.01 10/01/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 697406989 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $19.71 03/19/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 685884831 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $15.00 07/23/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 685258769 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $21.39 10/02/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 685222285 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $25.84 01/29/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 659369981 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $15.03 07/01/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 659369983 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $16.92 08/06/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 659369985 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $12.72 09/09/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 659369987 CMS
Lundbeck LLC $24.01 02/15/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 684371387 CMS
Lundbeck LLC $20.11 03/20/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 684371393 CMS
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC $20.74 06/12/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 704816889 CMS
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC $27.35 07/10/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 704816891 CMS
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC $11.19 08/22/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 704816893 CMS
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $12.68 01/30/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 687505495 CMS
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $14.17 02/14/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 687505497 CMS
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $18.42 04/08/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 687505499 CMS
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $14.14 04/29/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 687505501 CMS
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $14.76 09/11/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 687505503 CMS
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $13.14 10/03/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 687505505 CMS
Relypsa, Inc. $11.83 01/16/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 683898815 CMS
Relypsa, Inc. $18.39 02/26/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 683911149 CMS
Relypsa, Inc. $19.19 04/12/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 683912653 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2019_P01232026_01102026.csv

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