RxDoctor Payments Data

Douglas Downey, MD

Surgery · Cordele, GANPI 1083775803

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (37.0%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by CMR Surgical, Inc. at 48.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $16,161, more than ten times the $404 reported in 2019. Among 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.

$27,291in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 103 payments — averaging $264.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • CMR Surgical, Inc.$13K
  • Intuitive Surgical$8K
  • AbbVie$3K
  • Davol Inc.$1K
  • Integra Lifesciences Corporation$645
  • Sanara Medtech Inc.$157
  • plus $334 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$9,00033%
  • Travel & lodging$10,09737%
  • Food & beverage$4,30916%
  • Education$3,75014%
  • Gifts$1340%

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.

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

$27,291 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 855 surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$68,932
Medicare patients
127
Services billed
306

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen26$129
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen17$97
Ondansetron Hcl16$57

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Cordele

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Where these figures come from

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