Emily Watson, PA
Surgical · Atlanta, GANPI 1750802815
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $142,944 of the $150,270 with a category attached, or 95.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $55,397, 2.2 times the $24,643 reported in 2021. Among surgical 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.
Across 259 payments — averaging $580.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$150K
- Davol Inc.$140
- Abbott$22
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$14
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2500%
- Travel & lodging$4,2963%
- Food & beverage$2,7802%
- Education$142,94495%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 256 | $150,095 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Abbott | 1 | $22 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$150,270 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 372 surgical 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.
Other surgical in Atlanta
- Michael BerkeAtlanta$242K
- William JohnsonAtlanta$8K
- Shelby ShimbergAtlanta$8K
- Julie ShoffstallAtlanta$7K
- Brian MullinAtlanta$5K
- Caroline HerambAtlanta$5K
- David EllingsonAtlanta$5K
- Marquitha MayfieldAtlanta$4K
- Ashley MajoskeyAtlanta$4K
- Shenika GarnerAtlanta$4K
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.