Dennis Choat, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Fayetteville, GANPI 1346298213
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $42,334 of the $64,565 with a category attached, or 65.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.4% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among colon & rectal 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 132 payments — averaging $489.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$63K
- Medtronic$209
- Johnson & Johnson$207
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$176
- THD America, Inc.$173
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$173
- plus $756 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$14,50022%
- Travel & lodging$2,7394%
- Food & beverage$4,9918%
- Education$42,33466%
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 | 76 | $62,870 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $209 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $207 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 3 | $176 |
| THD America, Inc. | 5 | $173 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $173 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $124 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $122 |
| BD | 2 | $81 |
| Caldera Medical, Inc | 1 | $76 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $49 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $38 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $35 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $31 |
| Prescient Surgical | 1 | $29 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $26 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $16 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$61,584
- MATRIXRIB$119
How this compares
$64,565 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 66 colon & rectal 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 11 | $944 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 71 | $304 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 18 | $223 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 26 | $191 |
| Metronidazole | 73 | $113 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 36 | $104 |
| Hydrocortisone | 11 | $99 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 76 | $83 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Fayetteville
- David ArmstrongLawrenceville$1.2M
- Jeffrey CohenMarietta$663K
- Erin King-MullinsMacon$119K
- Jay SinghRoswell$102K
- Jason PetrofskiCumming$74K
- Seth RosenJohns Creek$42K
- Patrick SullivanAtlanta$41K
- Jose AycinenaGainesville$33K
- Fia YiAthens$32K
- Osama AtallahMacon$23K
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.