Has Bernadette Skruck received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,527 in general payments to Bernadette Skruck across 132 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Bernadette Skruck did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Bernadette Skruck come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Bernadette Skruck

Surgical · Augusta, GANPI 1063738722

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 132 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 29.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,232, 6.1 times the $203 reported in 2021.

$3,527in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 132 payments — averaging $26.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$1K
Atricure, Inc.$998
Abiomed$534
Getinge USA Sales, LLC$333
Edwards Lifesciences$149
Convatec Inc.$98
plus $372 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3,527100%

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
Abbott	46	$1,042
Atricure, Inc.	40	$998
Abiomed	13	$534
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	8	$333
Edwards Lifesciences	4	$149
Convatec Inc.	4	$98
Baxter Healthcare	2	$62
Johnson & Johnson	3	$61
Stryker	2	$48
LSI Solutions Inc	2	$45
Haemonetics Corporation	2	$40
Boston Scientific	1	$30
Hemosonics LLC	2	$29
Olympus America Inc.	1	$21
Chiesi USA, Inc.	1	$21
Teleflex LLC	1	$17

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

$3,527 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 372 surgical providers in Georgia.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban	31	$17,354
Amiodarone Hcl	27	$214
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	23	$171
Bumetanide	11	$131
Tramadol Hcl	36	$98
Metoprolol Tartrate	43	$87
Atorvastatin Calcium	14	$79
Potassium Chloride	22	$45
Furosemide	28	$17

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgical in Augusta

Nathan BoykinAugusta$4K
Kit TaylorAugusta$3K
Lauren EdekerAlpharetta$305K
Michael BerkeAtlanta$242K
Emily WatsonAtlanta$150K
Beretta Craft-CoffmanCanton$30K
Sarah NayebosadriDuluth$28K
Kenneth NorrisLawrenceville$19K
Scott LinacreLawrenceville$19K
Richard HeimbeckerLawrenceville$15K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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