Has Akshat Mehta received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,778 in general payments to Akshat Mehta across 91 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Akshat Mehta did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Akshat Mehta come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Akshat Mehta

Internal Medicine · Augusta, GANPI 1548770886

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (48.5%), grants and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 38.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,505, more than ten times the $14 reported in 2021. Among internal medicine clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$8,778in general payments, 2019–2025

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.

How this compares

$8,778 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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