Alyse Ragauskas
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 73 payments — averaging $74.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$525
- Polynovo North America LLC$261
- Kerecis Limited$191
- Baxter Healthcare$183
- plus $982 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,00919%
- Food & beverage$3,39963%
- Education$1,00018%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 5 | $2,038 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 18 | $1,229 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $525 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $261 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $191 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 7 | $183 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 5 | $170 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $140 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Vertex | 1 | $111 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 2 | $76 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 3 | $62 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $58 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $35 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
| BTG International Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $20 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $20 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 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.
- INTEGRA$1,855
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,003
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$581
- PRIMATRIX$581
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$482
- MATRIXRIB$246
- Novosorb BTM$201
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$161
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$161
- JOURNAVX$111
How this compares
$5,408 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 855 surgery providers in Georgia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron Hcl | 23 | $102 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 14 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Macon
- Danny VaughnMacon$89K
- Idelberto BadellAtlanta$3.9M
- Chad CopperGainesville$999K
- Zachary KlaassenAugusta$763K
- Kendra GrubbAtlanta$761K
- Stephen OdomAustell$599K
- Fritz Jean-PierreMarietta$464K
- Nelson RoyallGainesville$415K
- Denise LoAtlanta$309K
- Christian LarsenAtlanta$308K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.