Has George Ford received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $14,430 in general payments to George Ford across 208 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean George Ford did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about George Ford come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

George Ford

Pediatric Endocrinology · Johnson City, TNNPI 1750525713

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $8,850 of the $14,430 with a category attached, or 61.3%. AbbVie accounts for 66.1% of it on its own, with 41 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $5,225 and has fallen 93.3% since, to $351 in 2025.

$14,430in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 208 payments — averaging $69.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$10K
Medtronic$2K
Dexcom, Inc.$339
Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.$245
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$177
Pfizer$164
plus $2K from 36 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$8,85061%
Travel & lodging$1,53611%
Food & beverage$3,97828%
Education$660%

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
AbbVie	43	$9,542
Medtronic(2 entities)	26	$1,970
Dexcom, Inc.	15	$339
Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.	3	$245
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	8	$177
Pfizer	10	$164
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	9	$163
UCB, Inc.	6	$150
Novo Nordisk	7	$149
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$127
Greenwich Biosciences, Inc.	6	$125
Abbott	7	$117
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$88
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$87
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	4	$81
Insulet Corporation	5	$80
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$78
Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc.	4	$65
Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc	4	$64
Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$58
AstraZeneca	4	$56
Eton Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$50
Sequel Med Tech, LLC	1	$39
QOL Medical, LLC	2	$35
Immedica Pharma US, Inc.	1	$34
Lilly USA, LLC	2	$29
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$28
Tolmar, Inc.	1	$27
Neurelis, Inc.	1	$26
Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$25
Lifescan, Inc.	2	$24
Zealand Pharma US, Inc.	1	$22
Biogen	1	$20
Ascensia Diabetes Care US Inc.	1	$20
Gilead	1	$19
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.	1	$18
Zogenix Inc.	1	$17
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	1	$17
GSK	1	$17
Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$15
Travere Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$13
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$11

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

$14,430 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 37 pediatric endocrinology providers in Tennessee.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Atorvastatin Calcium	12	$91

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pediatric endocrinology in Johnson City

Evan LosJohnson City$13K
Evelyn ArtzJohnson City$1K
Justin GregoryNashville$254K
Nidhi GuptaFranklin$157K
Ashley ShoemakerNashville$50K
Jill SimmonsNashville$43K
Daniel MooreNashville$32K
Leah AkinseyeMemphis$14K
Ana KarabellMemphis$14K
Deanna Aftab GuyBrentwood$11K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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