RxDoctor Payments Data

Christopher Ledford, MD

Sports Medicine · Augusta, GANPI 1194952994

Payments from drug & device makers

$903in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $69.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$455
  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$132
  • Exactech, Inc.$131
  • Hydrocision, Inc.$114
  • GE HealthCare$19
  • Vertex$18
  • plus $34 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$45550%
  • Food & beverage$44850%

General payments by program year

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25

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

$903 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 168 sports medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$40,445
Medicare patients
174
Services billed
1,079

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin20$16,934
TrulicityDulaglutide18$15,626
EliquisApixaban24$13,486
Duloxetine Hcl32$583
Potassium Chloride27$535
Atorvastatin Calcium66$532
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen13$511
Celecoxib16$491
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate18$484
Diclofenac Sodium34$421
Metoprolol Succinate38$401
Gabapentin31$395
Losartan Potassium53$376
Amlodipine Besylate48$374
Tamsulosin Hcl16$299

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
PfizerEliquis$16$13,48624 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 45th percentile of 168 sports medicine providers in Georgia.

Other sports medicine in Augusta

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