James Depew, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Alpharetta, GANPI 1033374392
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,028 of the $3,190 with a category attached, or 63.6%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by KCI USA, Inc. at 25.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,576 and has fallen 68.5% since, to $496 in 2025.
Across 67 payments — averaging $47.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- KCI USA, Inc.$800
- AbbVie$623
- Merz North America, Inc.$549
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$435
- Tepha Inc$201
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$159
- plus $425 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$80025%
- Travel & lodging$36311%
- Food & beverage$2,02864%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $800 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 31 | $623 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 6 | $549 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 5 | $435 |
| Tepha Inc | 3 | $201 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 3 | $159 |
| Vertex | 2 | $131 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 5 | $77 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $35 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $34 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $19 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| Apyx Medical Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- PREVENA$800
- GalaFLEX$169
- XEOMIN$150
- BOTOX$135
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$103
How this compares
$3,190 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 83 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Georgia.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 11 | $25 |
| Alprazolam | 11 | $7 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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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.