Ellen Ferguson, DO
Family Medicine · Tucker, GANPI 1770541518
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 183 payments — averaging $19.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$426
- Novo Nordisk$411
- Amgen$319
- AbbVie$306
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$290
- GSK$221
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,39396%
- Education$1304%
- Gifts$231%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 24 | $426 |
| Novo Nordisk | 25 | $411 |
| Amgen | 19 | $319 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 16 | $306 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 10 | $290 |
| GSK | 12 | $221 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $220 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 4 | $211 |
| Bayer | 8 | $139 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $98 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $89 |
| Merck | 6 | $79 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $79 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $65 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Emmaus Medical, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $41 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $39 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $39 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Linus Health, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Welch Allyn | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Echosens North America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$3,546 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,111 family medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 54 | $75,736 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 30 | $44,481 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 36 | $40,983 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 23 | $25,887 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 16 | $24,689 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 37 | $3,382 |
| ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf | 13 | $2,767 |
| Boostrix TdapDiphth,pertuss(Acell),tet Vac | 30 | $2,051 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 169 | $1,585 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 110 | $1,267 |
| Losartan Potassium | 110 | $1,212 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 168 | $1,190 |
| Ezetimibe | 27 | $1,049 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 15 | $963 |
| Propranolol Hcl ErPropranolol Hcl | 13 | $887 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $39 | $75,73654 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $411 | $44,48130 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $79 | $40,98336 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $290 | $25,88723 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $426 | $24,68916 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $306 | $3,38237 claims |
| GSKShingrix | $221 | $2,76713 claims |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium | $16 | $47562 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 80th percentile of 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.
Other family medicine in Tucker
- Joseph SurberColumbus$16.6M
- Angela RitterGainesville$15.8M
- Jeffrey KingsleyColumbus$8.1M
- Christopher OldfieldSavannah$6.4M
- Darrell MurrayAtlanta$3.9M
- Ben ThomasAtlanta$3.2M
- Debbie HaginsSavannah$2.1M
- Aziz PiraniLilburn$2.1M
- Nadia CameronAtlanta$2.1M
- John LentzSnellville$1M
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.