Bruce Friedman, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Augusta, GANPI 1417939315
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 652 payments — averaging $1001.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Shionogi Inc$196K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$115K
- Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$60K
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$58K
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$54K
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$47K
- plus $123K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$47,3818%
- Speaking & faculty fees$471,44275%
- Travel & lodging$96,73215%
- Food & beverage$13,7102%
- Education$250%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shionogi Inc | 150 | $195,818 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 103 | $115,095 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 80 | $60,476 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 32 | $58,253 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 60 | $53,912 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 55 | $46,678 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 39 | $28,046 |
| Merck | 41 | $22,083 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 15 | $16,226 |
| Medline Industries LP | 11 | $13,949 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $11,215 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 11 | $8,881 |
| BTG International Inc. | 5 | $7,683 |
| AbbVie | 17 | $5,492 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $2,750 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 2 | $2,510 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $1,105 |
| Cipla USA Inc. | 2 | $680 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $477 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $300 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $300 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $187 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $182 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $157 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| OVIK Health, LLC | 1 | $67 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $58 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $26 |
| Bioxcel Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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.
- Fetroja$165,920
- RELISTOR$107,728
- ANDEXXA$62,185
- DSUVIA$59,783
- NUZYRA$46,145
- GIAPREZA$42,130
- Xerava$26,696
- Vabomere$26,687
- ZERBAXA$15,137
- Dermatology and Wound Care$13,604
- CRESEMBA$11,408
- Aurlumyn$6,700
- XIFAXAN$6,305
- AVYCAZ$5,039
- ANJESO$1,105
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$1,072
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$834
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$477
- SonicOne Clinic$187
- ZEMDRI (PLAZOMICIN)$147
How this compares
$652,939 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 265 critical care 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.
Other critical care medicine in Augusta
- Jason HenryAugusta$26K
- Gabriel ThorntonAugusta$5K
- Anthony RamageAugusta$4K
- Charles OribaborAugusta$4K
- Amrita JariwalaAugusta$2K
- Salman FidahusseinLagrange$852K
- Paul WeinbergLawrenceville$453K
- Lawrence KaplanLawrenceville$360K
- Gregory MauldinSnellville$221K
- Clark McDonoughDalton$97K
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.