RxDoctor Payments Data

Donald Waters, MD

Family Medicine · Blackshear, GANPI 1972535615

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,550in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 111 payments — averaging $13.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$257
  • Amgen$198
  • AbbVie$159
  • AstraZeneca$137
  • GSK$137
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$104
  • plus $559 from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,550100%

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

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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.

How this compares

$1,550 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$19,029
Medicare patients
132
Services billed
326

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban53$30,767
MounjaroTirzepatide22$22,359
JardianceEmpagliflozin11$12,942
OzempicSemaglutide13$10,598
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter15$9,740
Praluent PenAlirocumab14$7,004
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog20$2,584
Pantoprazole Sodium101$1,588
Levothyroxine Sodium136$1,417
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen58$1,404
Atorvastatin Calcium126$1,376
Ezetimibe22$1,284
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate39$1,174
Potassium Chloride76$1,168
Metoprolol Succinate71$1,088

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerEliquis$48$30,76753 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$25$22,35922 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$257$10,59813 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$137$9,74015 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$159$1,07418 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 65th percentile of 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.

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