Elnaz Balashi
Rheumatology · Colquitt, GANPI 1275153025
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.5% of the total across 129 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 28 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for rheumatology clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $5,560.
Across 129 payments — averaging $44.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi$1K
- AstraZeneca$642
- Amgen$619
- AbbVie$587
- UCB, Inc.$434
- GSK$431
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,56697%
- Education$1453%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi | 12 | $1,126 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 11 | $642 |
| Amgen | 17 | $619 |
| AbbVie | 13 | $587 |
| UCB, Inc. | 18 | $434 |
| GSK | 6 | $431 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $312 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 7 | $211 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $177 |
| Novartis | 2 | $169 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $162 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $145 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $120 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 4 | $99 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 5 | $96 |
| Alvogen Inc | 3 | $75 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $54 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $28 |
| Bayer | 1 | $20 |
| Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Organon | 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
$5,711 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 177 rheumatology providers in Georgia.
Other rheumatology in Colquitt
- James MossellTifton$1.6M
- Gary MyersonAtlanta$1M
- Theresa Lawrence FordLawrenceville$410K
- William WilsonAtlanta$344K
- Jefrey LiebermanDecatur$247K
- Mohammed AbubakerMarietta$218K
- James HuntThomasville$160K
- Omar KhanCumming$145K
- Paul SutejAtlanta$140K
- Sung LimAtlanta$125K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.