Ben Thomas
Family Medicine · Atlanta, GANPI 1497862593
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $658 of the $804 with a category attached, or 81.8%. Eli Lilly accounts for 81.8% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $708 and has fallen 97.8% since, to $16 in 2025.
Across 12 payments — averaging $67.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eli Lilly$658
- AbbVie$70
- Alkermes, Inc.$24
- Novo Nordisk$19
- Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.$18
- Medline Industries LP$16
Across 232 payments — averaging $13,652 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.
- Modernatx, Inc.$1.6M
- Regeneron$449K
- Pfizer$278K
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$173K
- Seqirus USA Inc$161K
- Cue Health Inc.$145K
- plus $335K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$65882%
- Food & beverage$14618%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eli Lilly | 4 | $658 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $70 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $19 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$804 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th 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).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.