Eric Bour, MD
Surgery · Athens, GANPI 1548245913
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (29.8%), speaking fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 59.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $36,467 and has fallen 72.0% since, to $10,200 in 2025. Among surgery 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 220 payments — averaging $383.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$51K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$32K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$1K
- Lucid Diagnostics Inc.$421
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$208
- Olympus America Inc.$166
- plus $469 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$25,11530%
- Speaking & faculty fees$24,70029%
- Travel & lodging$9,46711%
- Food & beverage$8,09310%
- Education$17,00020%
- Gifts$300%
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 | 127 | $50,544 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 62 | $31,598 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $1,000 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 7 | $421 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $208 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $166 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $151 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $127 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 3 | $64 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $35 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $23 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$28,069
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$26,670
- DA VINCI SP$20,100
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$14,703
- GORE SYNECOR Preperitoneal Biomaterial$2,542
- GORE ENFORM Intraperitoneal Biomaterial$2,542
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$1,538
- EXPAREL$1,000
- Iovera$1,000
- Product in Development$325
- 4-K$147
How this compares
$84,405 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 855 surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sucralfate | 33 | $1,231 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 137 | $733 |
| Famotidine | 52 | $665 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 108 | $534 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 11 | $330 |
| Methylprednisolone | 38 | $211 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 18 | $89 |
| Meloxicam | 20 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Athens
- Chad CopperGainesville$999K
- Zachary KlaassenAugusta$763K
- Stephen OdomAustell$599K
- Fritz Jean-PierreMarietta$464K
- Kendra GrubbAtlanta$374K
- Harry LightfootSmyrna$241K
- Oliver WhippleSavannah$222K
- Nelson RoyallGainesville$220K
- Ankit PatelAtlanta$217K
- Kevin NguyenAtlanta$161K
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.