RxDoctor Payments Data

Gordon Waters, MD

Family Medicine · Blackshear, GANPI 1730109414

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,491in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 281 payments — averaging $15.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$549
  • AstraZeneca$489
  • Amgen$351
  • AbbVie$339
  • Pfizer$276
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$222
  • plus $2K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,45699%
  • Education$351%

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

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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.

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

$4,491 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$202,722
Medicare patients
592
Services billed
5,182

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
OzempicSemaglutide268$293,670
MounjaroTirzepatide174$187,107
EliquisApixaban436$185,880
JardianceEmpagliflozin192$132,198
XifaxanRifaximin35$108,706
TrulicityDulaglutide81$77,523
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter79$67,813
MyrbetriqMirabegron188$66,683
LinzessLinaclotide97$64,272
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol116$61,104
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen1,413$49,322
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate126$48,078
XareltoRivaroxaban175$44,354
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec28$36,385
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan59$28,819

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus, Wegovy$549$333,039297 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$114$264,630255 claims
PfizerEliquis$276$185,880436 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Combivent Respimat, Stiolto Respimat$154$170,209246 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$222$108,70635 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Symbicort$489$101,763201 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$212$90,649115 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet Xr$52$71,422155 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$214$66,683188 claims
AbbVieLinzess$339$64,27297 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$39$44,354175 claims
NovartisEntresto$37$28,81959 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.

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