Has Cecil Rhodes, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,159 in general payments to Cecil Rhodes, MD across 100 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 Cecil Rhodes, MD 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 Cecil Rhodes, MD 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.

Cecil Rhodes, MD

Otolaryngology · Columbus, GANPI 1194136838

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,337 of the $5,159 with a category attached, or 64.7%. It is spread thinly across 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.6%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,449 and has fallen 68.5% since, to $771 in 2025. Among otolaryngology clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$5,159in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 100 payments — averaging $51.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$1K
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$1K
Medtronic$817
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$382
Smith+Nephew$353
Intersect ENT, Inc.$307
plus $1K from 12 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,54330%
Food & beverage$3,33765%
Education$2795%

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
Stryker	15	$1,218
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	20	$1,032
Medtronic(2 entities)	8	$817
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	14	$382
Smith+Nephew	4	$353
Intersect ENT, Inc.	7	$307
Aerin Medical Inc.	4	$272
GSK	11	$195
Zimmer Biomet	6	$174
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$99
Sanofi	2	$61
Johnson & Johnson	1	$56
Optinose US, Inc.	2	$48
Spirair, Inc.	1	$41
Itamar Medical Inc	1	$33
BD	1	$29
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$26
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA	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.

NSE - HIGH SPEED DRILLS$822
STRAIGHTSHOT$642
Inspire$238
Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$190
Coblation Wands$180
Halo$146
Coblation$146
TULA$146
SINUVA$136
Traumaone$114
VIVAER STYLUS$113
RHINAER STYLUS$113

How this compares

$5,159 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 308 otolaryngology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$90,343

Medicare patients

367

Services billed

1,008

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

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Dupixent SyringeDupilumab	18	$70,131
Azelastine Hcl	435	$10,127
Fluticasone Propionate	242	$2,542
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	15	$1,556
Ipratropium Bromide	46	$1,331
Azelastine-FluticasoneAzelastine/Fluticasone	11	$1,294
Mometasone Furoate	44	$795
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	59	$583
Ofloxacin	13	$186
Mupirocin	24	$137
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	22	$111
Methylprednisolone	13	$71
Omeprazole	11	$55

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Columbus

Dozier HoodFayetteville$347K
Christopher MelroySavannah$298K
Karen HoffmannAtlanta$223K
Jose StolovitzkyAtlanta$81K
Jonathan LindmanEvans$55K
Gregory PostmaAugusta$37K
Oswaldo HenriquezSmyrna$15K
Donald BrowningLawrenceville$14K
Robert GadlageDuluth$14K
Lawrence WeissMarietta$9K

See the full list for Georgia →

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.

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