Has Dirk Schrader, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,743 in general payments to Dirk Schrader, MD across 8 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Dirk Schrader, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Dirk Schrader, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Dirk Schrader, MD

Emergency Medicine · Athens, GANPI 1770565343

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,639 of the $1,743 with a category attached, or 94.0%. Kerecis Limited accounts for 94.0% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,639 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $20 in 2024. Among emergency medicine clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$1,743in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $217.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Kerecis Limited$2K
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$31
CSL Behring$20
Osiris Therapeutics Inc.$15
KCI USA, Inc.$14
Johnson & Johnson$12
plus $12 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,63994%
Food & beverage$855%
Education$201%

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
Kerecis Limited	1	$1,639
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	2	$31
CSL Behring	1	$20
Osiris Therapeutics Inc.	1	$15
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$14
Johnson & Johnson	1	$12
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$12

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

$1,743 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,299 emergency medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$93,240

Medicare patients

523

Services billed

815

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
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	49	$276
Cephalexin	18	$119
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	36	$115
Doxycycline Hyclate	14	$107
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	17	$84
Naproxen	16	$32
Methocarbamol	11	$27
Tramadol Hcl	11	$20
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	14	$13

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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