James Griffin, MD
Surgical Oncology · Athens, GANPI 1902136146
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $5,000 of the $7,425 with a category attached, or 67.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 87.1% of it on its own, with 28 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $5,387 and has fallen 73.6% since, to $1,420 in 2025.
Across 56 payments — averaging $132.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Johnson & Johnson$183
- Smith+Nephew$80
- Lexington Medical, Inc.$76
- KCI USA, Inc.$47
- Stryker$47
- plus $524 from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5628%
- Food & beverage$1,86225%
- Education$5,00067%
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 | 18 | $6,467 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $183 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $80 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Stryker | 1 | $47 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $44 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $43 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $34 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $32 |
| ADC Therapeutics America, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Merck | 1 | $26 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Seagen Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $21 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $19 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| GSK | 1 | $18 |
| Beone Medicines USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Telix Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $17 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$5,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,274
- Certus 140$109
How this compares
$7,425 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 43 surgical oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase | 23 | $33,483 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 30 | $66 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $16 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieCreon | $43 | $33,48323 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 75th percentile of 43 surgical oncology providers in Georgia.
Other surgical oncology in Athens
- Eddie AbdallaAtlanta$34K
- Atuhani BurnettAtlanta$23K
- Anita JohnsonWoodstock$18K
- Danny YakoubAugusta$17K
- Nicole KounalakisAtlanta$14K
- Sartaj SangheraMarietta$10K
- Barry RosemanAtlanta$10K
- Arnold ConfortiMacon$9K
- James GarberSavannah$7K
- David KoobyAtlanta$6K
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.