Caroline Hamilton
Physician Assistant · Augusta, GANPI 1215472410
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 184 payments — averaging $7.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$375
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$204
- Shionogi Inc$144
- Merck$139
- Viiv Healthcare Company$137
- Insmed, Inc.$125
- plus $319 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,444100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 146 | $375 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 6 | $204 |
| Shionogi Inc | 5 | $144 |
| Merck | 6 | $139 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 7 | $137 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $99 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $97 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $18 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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
$1,444 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 3,581 physician assistant providers in Georgia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 11 | $606 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Augusta
- Jonell PoeAugusta$18K
- Julie BuirdAugusta$17K
- Kolyse CaverAugusta$16K
- Lacey PrestonAugusta$15K
- Douglas DiruggieroCartersville$1.3M
- Jennifer CobbsAtlanta$1M
- A BrunnerStockbridge$1M
- Joseph LangshawCalhoun$887K
- Alison MoeAtlanta$410K
- Maggie SchreckAtlanta$389K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.