Cristina Casas Loyola
Internal Medicine · Augusta, GANPI 1427519164
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 54 payments — averaging $27.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$219
- AstraZeneca$122
- Lilly USA, LLC$119
- Johnson & Johnson$118
- Boehringer Ingelheim$103
- Dexcom, Inc.$101
- plus $700 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,481100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $219 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 6 | $122 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $119 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $118 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $103 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 5 | $101 |
| Eli Lilly Export S.A. Puerto Rico Branch | 4 | $94 |
| PBG Puerto Rico LLC | 5 | $90 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 3 | $76 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $71 |
| Amgen | 3 | $67 |
| Merck | 2 | $40 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $32 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $29 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Sequel Med Tech, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $21 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $21 |
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
$1,481 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 15 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Augusta
- Jon GibbsAugusta$172K
- Paul BradleySavannah$76.4M
- Kimball JohnsonAtlanta$51.1M
- Bram WieskopfWoodstock$21.9M
- Dwight BlakeUnion City$13.3M
- Charlotte Grayson-MathisFayetteville$9.6M
- Christopher RecknorGainesville$9.2M
- James HarperJohns Creek$9.2M
- Robert Springer IiiAtlanta$5.3M
- Thomas MoriaritySavannah$4.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.