Jay Rains
Physician Assistant · Athens, GANPI 1043718331
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 94.5% of the total across 212 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 34 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,303, 2.3 times the $571 reported in 2021. Among physician assistant clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 212 payments — averaging $24.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bayer$726
- Johnson & Johnson$663
- AbbVie$411
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$390
- Teleflex LLC$334
- Pfizer$299
- plus $2K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,95995%
- Education$2875%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bayer | 27 | $726 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 24 | $663 |
| AbbVie | 20 | $411 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 14 | $390 |
| Teleflex LLC | 6 | $334 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $299 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 13 | $276 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 10 | $246 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 7 | $215 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $181 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $149 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 8 | $140 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $130 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $119 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 5 | $117 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $115 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 4 | $110 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $87 |
| Halozyme Inc | 3 | $57 |
| Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $54 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $35 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Palette Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Immunitybio, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Calyxo, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| ABC Home Medical Supply, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
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
$5,245 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,581 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| JatenzoTestosterone Undecanoate | 12 | $12,001 |
| Testosterone | 24 | $3,294 |
| Testosterone Cypionate | 37 | $1,071 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Athens
- Douglas DiruggieroCartersville$1.3M
- Jennifer CobbsAtlanta$1M
- A BrunnerStockbridge$1M
- Joseph LangshawCalhoun$879K
- Alison MoeAtlanta$410K
- Maggie SchreckAtlanta$389K
- Lisa HillMarietta$190K
- Laura BishopBrunswick$103K
- Jaime AckermanAtlanta$84K
- Richard BurrellBrunswick$69K
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.