Christopher Recknor
Internal Medicine · Gainesville, GANPI 1306832175
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $16,000 of the $21,314 with a category attached, or 75.1%. Amgen accounts for 86.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $16,877 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $14 in 2024. Among internal medicine clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 25 payments — averaging $852.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$18K
- Radius Health, Inc.$3K
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$120
- Lilly USA, LLC$31
- Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$24
- AbbVie$19
- plus $13 from 1 others
Across 1,044 payments — averaging $8769.60 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.
- Genentech, Inc.$4.7M
- Eli Lilly$1.3M
- Regeneron$1.1M
- Radius Health, Inc.$693K
- Amgen$535K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$370K
- plus $539K from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,00075%
- Travel & lodging$2,21910%
- Food & beverage$6183%
- Education$2,47712%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 11 | $18,431 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 8 | $2,676 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $24 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $19 |
| Novo Nordisk | 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.
How this compares
$21,314 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.
Other internal medicine in Gainesville
- Michael GibsonSmyrna$2.2M
- Eduard FatakhovAlpharetta$376K
- Tracey HenryAtlanta$305K
- Sharon TuckettVilla Rica$265K
- Ebon BourneMarietta$242K
- Jennifer WoehlerSavannah$207K
- Julian HutchinsGreensboro$201K
- Brian PearlmanDalton$199K
- Scott ParryAtlanta$162K
- Jennifer GilliganAtlanta$162K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.