Jeffrey Polekoff
Internal Medicine · Marietta, GANPI 1497888192
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 230 payments — averaging $18.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$671
- AstraZeneca$576
- Novo Nordisk$512
- Lilly USA, LLC$416
- AbbVie$349
- Amgen$281
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$200%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3929%
- Food & beverage$3,75990%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 19 | $671 |
| AstraZeneca | 35 | $576 |
| Novo Nordisk | 31 | $512 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 27 | $416 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 22 | $349 |
| Amgen | 16 | $281 |
| Merck | 14 | $218 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 12 | $210 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 10 | $180 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 8 | $133 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $108 |
| GSK | 7 | $107 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $101 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 7 | $99 |
| Eisai Inc. | 5 | $71 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $28 |
| Bayer | 1 | $20 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- SOLIQUA 100/33$300
- RYBELSUS$122
- Otezla$101
How this compares
$4,171 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.
Other internal medicine in Marietta
- Ebon BourneMarietta$242K
- Ramprasad SubramaniamMarietta$142K
- Paul BradleySavannah$76.4M
- Kimball JohnsonAtlanta$51.1M
- Bram WieskopfWoodstock$21.9M
- Dwight BlakeUnion City$13.3M
- Charlotte Grayson-MathisFayetteville$9.6M
- Christopher RecknorGainesville$9.2M
- James HarperJohns Creek$9.2M
- Robert Springer IiiAtlanta$5.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.