NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Legal Medicine in Tennessee

14 NPPES records list legal medicine with a practice address in Tennessee, 0.2 per 100,000 residents, the 20th highest rate of 46. Knoxville and Memphis have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Tennessee license search.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 173000000X · method

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

Knoxville has the most, 2

  1. Knoxville2
  2. Memphis2
  3. Chattanooga1
  4. Covington1
  5. Franklin1

Legal Medicine records in Tennessee

  1. Sonja Branam, DVMChattanooga, TN 374211164960381
  2. David Burns, PSYCHIATRISTFranklin, TN 370671073640629
  3. Sam Castellani, M.D.Madison, TN 371151245285436
  4. Robert Finelli, MDKnoxville, TN 379221336236322
  5. Patricia Hardcastle, APRN,BCKnoxville, TN 379171871566588
  6. Roy Johnson, MD, MSPHLebanon, TN 370901174668230
  7. Martin Krecker, M.D.Hixson, TN 373431003894148
  8. Jason Pollock, M.D.Murfreesboro, TN 371291306917117
  9. Alejandro Rivas, MDNashville, TN 372071780629915
  10. Sung Ro, MDMemphis, TN 381111538100383
  11. Tahnya See, M.D.Smyrna, TN 371671760593511
  12. Philip Sherman, M.D.Union City, TN 382611184623464
  13. Brenda Springfield, FNPMemphis, TN 381011861498776
  14. Deborah Vanbeukering, D.O.Covington, TN 380191689808628

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 173000000X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Tennessee ranks 20 of 46 per resident

  1. Utah0.2
  2. Kansas0.2
  3. Idaho0.2
  4. Tennessee0.2
  5. Arizona0.2
  6. Kentucky0.2
  7. 50 states and D.C.0.2

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 173000000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

28.6% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 37.7% nationally

A Medicare file here is Part D prescribing (2024), a MIPS score (2023), an Open Payments record (2024) or Medicare group billing (CMS Doctors and Clinicians). A record outside them may still see patients: these files cover Medicare only.

  1. Tennessee28.6%
  2. United States37.7%

Legal Medicine records in Tennessee, measured

  • In a Medicare file4 of 14 · 28.6% here, 37.7% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file2 · 14.3% here, 19.2% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more13 · 92.9% here, 77.1% nationally

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 173000000X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

14 NPPES records list legal medicine (173000000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Tennessee: 0.2 per 100,000 residents against 0.2 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Knoxville has 2 of them (14%).

A record is a registration a provider made and keeps up to date: it shows neither that the provider is licensed nor that they still practice there. The state's own license search is the check.

States with a similar number

  1. Alabama14
  2. Arizona14
  3. Virginia13
  4. Georgia12

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Louisiana0.2
  2. Michigan0.2
  3. North Carolina0.2
  4. Illinois0.2

The largest states

  1. California112
  2. New York112
  3. Florida76
  4. Pennsylvania34
  5. Illinois30

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy; 2023 Census population estimates. A registry record is not a license.

Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.