George Copeland, MD
Surgery · Jackson, MSNPI 1326153149
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 114 payments — averaging $50.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Hologic Inc$679
- Davol Inc.$536
- Baxter Healthcare$142
- AbbVie$139
- Johnson & Johnson$123
- plus $1K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1002%
- Travel & lodging$1,40624%
- Food & beverage$3,24456%
- Education$1,00017%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 24 | $2,755 |
| Hologic Inc | 2 | $679 |
| Davol Inc. | 7 | $536 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $142 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $139 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $123 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $113 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 6 | $109 |
| Comsort, Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Kerecis Limited | 5 | $94 |
| Vertex | 4 | $79 |
| Covidien LP | 5 | $78 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $77 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $60 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $57 |
| Merck | 4 | $54 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 2 | $50 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $38 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $34 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $28 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Medela LLC | 2 | $20 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Inari Medical, 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,843
- BioZorb$639
- BD MAX$145
- COSEAL$125
- SPYGLASS$113
- Phasix Mesh$102
- SIVEXTRO$100
How this compares
$5,750 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 223 surgery providers in Mississippi.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Promethazine Hcl | 22 | $581 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 72 | $548 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 46 | $283 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 15 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Jackson
- Laura VickJackson$77K
- Juvonda HodgeJackson$77K
- Jonathan CarrollJackson$33K
- Andrew MalletteJackson$29K
- Alison AcottJackson$26K
- Samuel YelvertonJackson$25K
- Kenneth ClevelandJackson$20K
- David CarrollJackson$18K
- Gina HeathJackson$16K
- Jenetta ThompsonJackson$16K
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.