Annette Bernard, MD
Internal Medicine · Atlanta, GANPI 1831232024
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 450 payments — averaging $19.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Viiv Healthcare Company$2K
- Gilead$2K
- Lilly USA, LLC$768
- Amgen$630
- Merck$568
- Novo Nordisk$531
- plus $3K from 33 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$380%
- Food & beverage$8,89099%
- Education$70%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 100 | $1,765 |
| Gilead | 73 | $1,560 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 43 | $768 |
| Amgen | 21 | $630 |
| Merck | 26 | $568 |
| Novo Nordisk | 32 | $531 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 11 | $387 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 23 | $362 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 23 | $361 |
| Napo Pharmaceuticals Inc | 12 | $238 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $155 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 5 | $151 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 10 | $116 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $114 |
| GSK | 6 | $109 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 7 | $107 |
| Exact Sciences | 5 | $101 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $96 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $80 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $67 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $49 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $48 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $42 |
| Abbott | 2 | $39 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Novartis | 1 | $32 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Acerus Pharmaceuticals Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $17 |
| Sequel Med Tech, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Eisai Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$8,935 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,311 internal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala | 85 | $353,620 |
| IsentressRaltegravir Potassium | 37 | $76,801 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 30 | $58,518 |
| DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam | 23 | $57,998 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 34 | $55,139 |
| GenvoyaElviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen | 12 | $46,922 |
| EliquisApixaban | 53 | $43,573 |
| Etravirine | 33 | $35,871 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 36 | $29,824 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 13 | $22,115 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 12 | $17,578 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 19 | $15,262 |
| Maraviroc | 12 | $14,823 |
| Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole | 27 | $7,459 |
| Estradiol | 47 | $6,105 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GileadBiktarvy, Descovy, Genvoya | $1,560 | $458,540120 claims |
| MerckIsentress | $568 | $76,80137 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $531 | $58,51830 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $768 | $55,13934 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $155 | $43,57353 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $107 | $29,82436 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $17 | $22,11513 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $109 | $17,57812 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $362 | $2,50427 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 90th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.
Other internal medicine in Atlanta
- Kimball JohnsonAtlanta$51.1M
- Robert Springer IiiAtlanta$5.3M
- Paulina Rebolledo EsteinouAtlanta$2.1M
- Courtney SheltonAtlanta$1.2M
- Melanie ThompsonAtlanta$1.1M
- Tracey HenryAtlanta$305K
- David WatsonAtlanta$286K
- Priscilla Igho-PemuAtlanta$269K
- Robert HerreraAtlanta$261K
- Syed RahmanAtlanta$211K
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.