Cristina Elstad
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Athens, GANPI 1114344553
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 162 payments — averaging $19.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$461
- AbbVie$437
- Bayer$404
- Coopersurgical, Inc.$262
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$204
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$173
- plus $1K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,04797%
- Education$913%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 19 | $461 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 24 | $437 |
| Bayer | 28 | $404 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 7 | $262 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 9 | $204 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 12 | $173 |
| Biogen | 5 | $112 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $106 |
| Organon | 5 | $81 |
| Amgen | 5 | $78 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $74 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 4 | $72 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 4 | $61 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Caldera Medical, Inc | 1 | $48 |
| Abbott | 1 | $46 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Millicent US Inc | 2 | $43 |
| Merck | 3 | $39 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 2 | $28 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $26 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $24 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Vertex | 1 | $22 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $15 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $13 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 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.
- PARAGARD T 380A$132
How this compares
$3,138 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,324 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Georgia.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Athens
- Gretchen MitchellCumming$4.5M
- Stephen BlankAtlanta$3.5M
- Eric BrownAtlanta$1.7M
- Melissa KottkeAtlanta$1.7M
- Allan DinnersteinFort Stewart$1.5M
- David MontaldiMarietta$1.1M
- Winifred SoufiAtlanta$889K
- Richard ZaneAlpharetta$638K
- Edmund KimLawrenceville$628K
- Serena TidwellColumbus$617K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.