Christa Bales
Family · Forsyth, GANPI 1316614340
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 153 payments — averaging $20.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$471
- AbbVie$355
- Novo Nordisk$303
- Pfizer$291
- Lilly USA, LLC$276
- Boehringer Ingelheim$196
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,05098%
- Education$622%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 24 | $471 |
| AbbVie | 19 | $355 |
| Novo Nordisk | 15 | $303 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $291 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 17 | $276 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 12 | $196 |
| Bayer | 8 | $147 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $146 |
| Amgen | 7 | $134 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 6 | $119 |
| GSK | 5 | $102 |
| Merck | 5 | $93 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $93 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $85 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $47 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $36 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $15 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $13 |
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.
- PROVENGE$146
How this compares
$3,112 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 6,258 family providers in Georgia.
Other family in Forsyth
- Allie McAllisterMarietta$299K
- Tonita WashingtonLawrenceville$153K
- Erin HenryLawrenceville$135K
- Trisha RomanPeachtree City$134K
- Lori ReedMarietta$106K
- Julia BranchCumming$102K
- Hannah BanachWaycross$85K
- Morgan GroothandEvans$81K
- Anna Carolina WrightLilburn$69K
- Jessica FeehanCanton$51K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.