Cheryl Barnes
Dermatology · Thomasville, GANPI 1609838077
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,939 of the $5,553 with a category attached, or 88.9%. It is spread thinly across 35 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,604, 2.9 times the $561 reported in 2019.
Across 243 payments — averaging $22.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$689
- Johnson & Johnson$670
- LEO Pharma Inc.$395
- Pfizer$385
- Sanofi$216
- plus $2K from 29 others
Across 14 payments — averaging $5692.99 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Amgen$43K
- GSK$36K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,93989%
- Education$61411%
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 | 54 | $1,285 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 21 | $689 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 25 | $670 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 16 | $395 |
| Pfizer | 39 | $385 |
| Sanofi | 7 | $216 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $209 |
| UCB, Inc. | 6 | $192 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $165 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $151 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $146 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $112 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 5 | $88 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $86 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $81 |
| Merck | 6 | $78 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Novartis | 3 | $64 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $51 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| GSK | 3 | $43 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Amgen | 2 | $29 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Bayer | 1 | $17 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $15 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $7 |
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
$5,553 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 345 dermatology 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| OtezlaApremilast | 34 | $166,468 |
| Dupixent SyringeDupilumab | 35 | $134,463 |
| Taltz AutoinjectorIxekizumab | 13 | $86,902 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 187 | $6,391 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 261 | $3,848 |
| Fluorouracil | 51 | $3,248 |
| Ketoconazole | 187 | $3,036 |
| Metronidazole | 43 | $2,716 |
| Tretinoin | 23 | $1,661 |
| Desonide | 25 | $1,440 |
| Fluocinonide | 33 | $1,218 |
| Nystatin | 84 | $1,190 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 40 | $1,011 |
| Minocycline Hcl | 31 | $948 |
| Mupirocin | 123 | $894 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AmgenOtezla | $29 | $166,46834 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 345 dermatology providers in Georgia.
Other dermatology in Thomasville
- Jordan WardThomasville$85K
- Firas HougeirDouglasville$3.1M
- David CohenMacon$2.9M
- Zakiya RiceAtlanta$1.1M
- Joseph PayneAtlanta$711K
- Jonathan WeissSnellville$692K
- Jamie WeismanAtlanta$620K
- Mack RachalAtlanta$260K
- Tiffany Clay-RamseyMarietta$207K
- Jessica MercerSnellville$183K
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.