Darlene Batastini
Family · Augusta, GANPI 1538435086
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 34 payments — averaging $25.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$143
- Pfizer$115
- Inari Medical, Inc.$94
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$80
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$60
- Ardelyx, Inc.$51
- plus $316 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$83597%
- Education$253%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 4 | $143 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $115 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $94 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $60 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Novartis | 1 | $28 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$860 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 6,258 family 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| XphozahTenapanor Hcl | 14 | $47,014 |
| AuryxiaFerric Citrate | 11 | $25,826 |
| Sevelamer Carbonate | 25 | $11,340 |
| Calcitriol | 20 | $431 |
| Losartan Potassium | 25 | $165 |
| Furosemide | 17 | $150 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 12 | $59 |
| Carvedilol | 13 | $49 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Augusta
- Stephanie JacobsonAugusta$24K
- Clovalyn Jeffrey-McgannAugusta$19K
- Victoria BurtAugusta$15K
- Gloria DowneyAugusta$14K
- Joni SmithAugusta$14K
- Allie McAllisterMarietta$299K
- Tonita WashingtonLawrenceville$153K
- Erin HenryLawrenceville$135K
- Trisha RomanPeachtree City$134K
- Lori ReedMarietta$106K
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.