Dennis Ashley, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Macon, GANPI 1821064361
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (36.8%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 38 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 39.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $9,118 and has fallen 79.9% since, to $1,831 in 2025.
Across 167 payments — averaging $93.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- CSL Behring$3K
- Penumbra, Inc.$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$900
- Johnson & Johnson$840
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$762
- plus $2K from 32 others
Across 26 payments — averaging $25,827 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.
- CSL Behring$672K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$780%
- Travel & lodging$5,18533%
- Food & beverage$4,60430%
- Education$5,74037%
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 | 7 | $6,193 |
| CSL Behring | 16 | $3,124 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 8 | $1,428 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $900 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 28 | $840 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 25 | $762 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $349 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 4 | $288 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 8 | $191 |
| Stryker | 2 | $140 |
| Acell, Inc. | 6 | $137 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 5 | $123 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $116 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 7 | $106 |
| Medline Industries LP | 2 | $95 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 4 | $87 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 3 | $78 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 2 | $76 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $62 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $55 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 2 | $47 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $42 |
| BTG International Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $39 |
| BD | 1 | $27 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $26 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $23 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $23 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $21 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $19 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $13 |
| Applied Medical Technology 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.
- DAVINCI XI$5,500
- Smart Coil$1,155
- Da Vinci Surgical System$641
- VISTASEAL$148
- Enseal$148
- Harmonic$148
- STRATAFIX$148
- Echelon Circular$148
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$115
- RUBY Coil$108
How this compares
$15,607 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 52 surgical critical care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 13 | $143 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical critical care in Macon
- Dudley ChristieMacon$85K
- Ashley JonesMacon$14K
- Kristin HarmonMacon$8K
- Amy ChristieMacon$1K
- Macram AyoubMacon$510
- Lawrence WilsonMacon$42
- Jonathan NguyenAtlanta$410K
- Michael CormicanGainesville$196K
- Elizabeth BenjaminAtlanta$55K
- Bounthavy HomsombathAugusta$30K
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.