Ambar Kulshreshtha, MD
Family Medicine · Atlanta, GANPI 1326313750
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $12,308 of the $14,084 with a category attached, or 87.4%. 5 manufacturers reported payments, led by Lilly USA, LLC at 59.7% of the total. Among family medicine clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 14 payments — averaging $1006.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$8K
- Novo Nordisk$5K
- Amgen$164
- Gilead$106
- Corium, LLC$91
Across 1 payment — averaging $26,466 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.
- Cleerly, Inc.$26K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,30887%
- Travel & lodging$1,1198%
- Food & beverage$6585%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $8,407 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $5,317 |
| Amgen | 2 | $164 |
| Gilead | 1 | $106 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $91 |
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
$14,084 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,111 family medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 92 | $36,779 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 17 | $19,025 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 16 | $16,206 |
| Memantine Hcl | 299 | $11,707 |
| Aripiprazole | 70 | $10,292 |
| Rivastigmine | 22 | $6,723 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 327 | $5,579 |
| Fluoxetine Hcl | 76 | $4,289 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 118 | $4,270 |
| Donepezil Hcl | 273 | $4,228 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 344 | $3,654 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 11 | $3,488 |
| Olanzapine OdtOlanzapine | 15 | $3,399 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 189 | $3,157 |
| Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate | 18 | $2,905 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $5,317 | $19,02517 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 95th percentile of 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.
Other family medicine in Atlanta
- Contessa MetcalfeAtlanta$157K
- Mark TannerAtlanta$94K
- Zazi NylanderAtlanta$35K
- Zia AbdiAtlanta$27K
- Donell CollinsAtlanta$19K
- Lauren PowellAtlanta$16K
- Jeffrey KingsleyColumbus$404K
- Debbie HaginsSavannah$279K
- Yolanda WadeTyrone$233K
- Julian HutchinsWarrenton$222K
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.