RxDoctor Payments Data

Byron Norris, MD

Otolaryngology · Athens, GANPI 1336346519

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,800in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 71 payments — averaging $25.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Aerin Medical Inc.$266
  • Medtronic$232
  • Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$181
  • Kaleo, Inc.$172
  • Intersect ENT, Inc.$148
  • Optinose US, Inc.$131
  • plus $671 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,76698%
  • Education$342%

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

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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.

How this compares

$1,800 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 308 otolaryngology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$156,500
Medicare patients
504
Services billed
2,294

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Azelastine Hcl231$5,025
Epinephrine13$3,339
Ipratropium Bromide81$2,009
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth12$1,642
Fluticasone Propionate123$1,617
Famotidine163$1,185
Omeprazole53$432
Sucralfate34$377
Cefdinir25$350
Mupirocin52$259
Mometasone Furoate18$201
Clarithromycin13$180
Methylprednisolone34$178
Amitriptyline Hcl18$171
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron21$171

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USAEpinephrine$17$3,33913 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 55th percentile of 308 otolaryngology providers in Georgia.

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