Amy Simone
Physician Assistant · Atlanta, GANPI 1346258613
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $31,038 of the $50,693 with a category attached, or 61.2%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 72.2% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $20,250 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $49 in 2025. Among physician assistant 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 161 payments — averaging $314.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$37K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$11K
- Abbott$1K
- Boston Scientific$924
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$294
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$165
- plus $540 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$31,03861%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,40011%
- Travel & lodging$6,84914%
- Food & beverage$7,40715%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 114 | $36,610 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $10,800 |
| Abbott | 20 | $1,361 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $924 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $294 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $165 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 7 | $142 |
| Amgen | 1 | $137 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $51 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $37 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $22 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Vascular Lithotripsy$9,000
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$6,557
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$1,800
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,699
- Sentinel$600
- MitraClip$487
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$381
- ACUSON SC2000 Diagnostic Ultrasound System$294
- MitraClip System$183
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$151
- NAVITOR$150
- Repatha$137
- Orsiro Mission$135
- PK Papyrus$135
How this compares
$50,693 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,581 physician assistant providers in Georgia.
Other physician assistant in Atlanta
- Jennifer CobbsAtlanta$1M
- Alison MoeAtlanta$410K
- Maggie SchreckAtlanta$389K
- Jaime AckermanAtlanta$84K
- Andrew GoodnerAtlanta$56K
- Tiffany LangemanAtlanta$53K
- Rachel NeelyAtlanta$44K
- Jennifer YoungAtlanta$32K
- Kia CampbellAtlanta$20K
- Laura GillespieAtlanta$19K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.