Akshat Mehta
Internal Medicine · Augusta, GANPI 1548770886
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 91 payments — averaging $96.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Penumbra, Inc.$420
- Johnson & Johnson$180
- plus $981 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$2,33327%
- Travel & lodging$2,00623%
- Food & beverage$4,25648%
- Education$1832%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 18 | $3,360 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $1,703 |
| Abiomed | 14 | $1,115 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 5 | $1,019 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $420 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $180 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $143 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $126 |
| Stryker | 4 | $122 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $72 |
| Abbott | 3 | $65 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $65 |
| Amgen | 2 | $60 |
| Novartis | 2 | $47 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Recor Medical Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $25 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $20 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- ACCOLADE SR$1,409
- Impella$623
- Indigo System$420
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$291
- RESOLUTE ONYX$183
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$139
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$133
- PASCAL$129
- WATCHMAN FLX$115
- CAMZYOS$110
- XARELTO$109
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$106
How this compares
$8,778 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.
Other internal medicine in Augusta
- Jon GibbsAugusta$172K
- Paul BradleySavannah$76.4M
- Kimball JohnsonAtlanta$51.1M
- Bram WieskopfWoodstock$21.9M
- Dwight BlakeUnion City$13.3M
- Charlotte Grayson-MathisFayetteville$9.6M
- Christopher RecknorGainesville$9.2M
- James HarperJohns Creek$9.2M
- Robert Springer IiiAtlanta$5.3M
- Thomas MoriaritySavannah$4.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.