Aliu Sanni, MD
General Surgery · Loganville, GANPI 1629226758
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (41.7%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 61.1% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,545 and has fallen 87.6% since, to $564 in 2025.
Across 91 payments — averaging $67.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Novo Nordisk$596
- Johnson & Johnson$216
- Baxter Healthcare$98
- Lilly USA, LLC$48
- plus $325 from 13 others
Across 971 payments — averaging $1263.28 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Novo Nordisk AS$668K
- Eli Lilly$336K
- Pfizer$92K
- GSK$73K
- Bausch Health US, LLC$39K
- AstraZeneca$19K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,54242%
- Food & beverage$2,31938%
- Education$1,24120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 24 | $3,730 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $1,091 |
| Novo Nordisk | 25 | $596 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $216 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $98 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $48 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $32 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Vertex | 1 | $29 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $29 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $23 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $18 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $13 |
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
$6,102 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 29 general surgery providers in Georgia.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 30 | $38,721 |
| ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf | 127 | $26,387 |
| ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf | 68 | $19,992 |
| AbrysvoRsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf | 34 | $10,202 |
| MresviaRsv Vaccine, Pref, Mrna/Pf | 25 | $7,382 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $147 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 27 | $137 |
| Omeprazole | 23 | $73 |
| Ibuprofen | 18 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $48 | $38,72130 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 29 general surgery providers in Georgia.
Other general surgery in Loganville
- Jacob HollowayRoswell$18K
- Ian KatzDecatur$10K
- Clarence HixonAtlanta$10K
- Michael CornwellDecatur$1K
- Harinder BrarMilledgeville$149
- Christopher DenteAtlanta$84
- Steven EfirdBlairsville$33
- Elena ShahbaziFort Gordon$30
- Kevin CochranAugusta$28
- Melissa PiotrowskiAtlanta$0
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.