Bantwal Baliga, MD
Family Medicine · Columbus, GANPI 1730272584
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 830 payments — averaging $141.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$72K
- Valeritas, Inc.$14K
- Mannkind Corporation$7K
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$5K
- Zealand Pharma US, Inc.$3K
- GSK$2K
- plus $15K from 45 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20,35518%
- Speaking & faculty fees$56,00049%
- Travel & lodging$18,72616%
- Food & beverage$20,16417%
- Education$650%
- Gifts$590%
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.
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.
- GVOKE HYPOPEN$35,396
- GVOKE PFS$30,820
- V-GO$16,591
- Vascepa$5,130
- RECORLEV$3,615
- AFREZZA$3,002
- iLet Bionic Pancreas$2,411
- ZEGALOGUE$2,100
- FREESTYLE LIBRE 3$530
- UNITY DIABETES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM$379
- iLet Insulin Infusion Kit Inset$314
- iLet Insulin Infusion Kit Contact Detach$314
- Kerendia$261
- CeQur Simplicity$254
- MINIMED 780G$232
- AIRSUPRA$125
- QSYMIA$125
- Tresiba$124
- Vafseo$124
- Yorvipath$118
How this compares
$117,370 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 |
|---|---|---|
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 210 | $138,251 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 95 | $99,874 |
| LovenoxEnoxaparin Sodium | 11 | $95,587 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 61 | $68,290 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 92 | $65,748 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 78 | $65,453 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 78 | $63,051 |
| Teriparatide | 21 | $54,062 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 50 | $46,021 |
| EliquisApixaban | 63 | $40,683 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 54 | $29,619 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 40 | $25,990 |
| KerendiaFinerenone | 20 | $14,480 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 15 | $13,956 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 18 | $11,482 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Brilinta | $1,375 | $170,852265 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $976 | $114,311111 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLovenox, Soliqua 100-33 | $107 | $105,22923 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Novolog | $1,798 | $103,459106 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $2,147 | $65,74892 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $204 | $65,45378 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $239 | $63,05178 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $31 | $40,68363 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid | $84 | $15,11880 claims |
| BayerKerendia | $964 | $14,48020 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $14 | $13,95615 claims |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium | $25 | $2,094230 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 Columbus
- Joseph SurberColumbus$16.6M
- Jeffrey KingsleyColumbus$8.1M
- Megbewe OkorobaColumbus$61K
- Kimberly Brown-GullattColumbus$35K
- Angela RitterGainesville$15.8M
- Christopher OldfieldSavannah$6.4M
- Darrell MurrayAtlanta$3.9M
- Ben ThomasAtlanta$3.2M
- Debbie HaginsSavannah$2.1M
- Aziz PiraniLilburn$2.1M
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.