RxDoctor Payments Data

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.

$7,425in general payments, 2019–2025

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

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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

$7,425 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 43 surgical oncology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$86,426
Medicare patients
139
Services billed
332

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
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase23$33,483
Oxycodone Hcl30$66
Tramadol Hcl16$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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart 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.

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