Clarence Hixon
General Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1447286893
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,000 of the $10,174 with a category attached, or 68.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 94.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $7,942 and has fallen 72.5% since, to $2,184 in 2022. Among general surgery 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.
Across 44 payments — averaging $231.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- AbbVie$262
- Johnson & Johnson$124
- Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited$87
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$33
- Reprise Biomedical, Inc.$27
- plus $32 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,72917%
- Food & beverage$1,26612%
- Education$7,00069%
- Gifts$1792%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 21 | $9,608 |
| AbbVie | 12 | $262 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $124 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 5 | $87 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 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.
How this compares
$10,174 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 29 general surgery 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.
Other general surgery in Atlanta
- Christopher DenteAtlanta$84
- Melissa PiotrowskiAtlanta$0
- Elliot BishopAtlanta$0
- John GallowayAtlanta$0
- John SweeneyAtlanta$0
- Meredith ReddenAtlanta$0
- Benjamin HazenAtlanta$0
- Jacob HollowayRoswell$18K
- Ian KatzDecatur$10K
- Aliu SanniLoganville$6K
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.