Jennifer Backus
Family · Atlanta, GANPI 1023503760
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 268 payments — averaging $33.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$4K
- Lilly USA, LLC$585
- Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$572
- Novo Nordisk$567
- Amgen$375
- Bigfoot Biomedical Inc$341
- plus $3K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,91232%
- Food & beverage$6,13068%
- Education$120%
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 | 26 | $3,875 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 41 | $585 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 16 | $572 |
| Novo Nordisk | 29 | $567 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 11 | $375 |
| Bigfoot Biomedical Inc | 5 | $341 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $319 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 14 | $292 |
| Novartis | 15 | $275 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 11 | $223 |
| Abbott | 8 | $215 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 16 | $196 |
| Zealand Pharma US, Inc. | 10 | $177 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $163 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 6 | $120 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $96 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $89 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $77 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $75 |
| Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 5 | $48 |
| Bayer | 3 | $46 |
| Cequr Corporation | 2 | $43 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Insulet Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- TZIELD$2,424
- UNITY DIABETES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM$294
- GVOKE PFS$233
- FARXIGA$125
- EVENITY$124
- TEPEZZA$122
- GVOKE HYPOPEN$113
- FREESTYLE LIBRE 3$110
- InPen$100
How this compares
$9,054 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,258 family providers in Georgia.
Other family in Atlanta
- Stacey TatroeAtlanta$38K
- Brandy HughesAtlanta$29K
- Cecile MartinAtlanta$23K
- Terri CowanAtlanta$21K
- Brandi Pinckney-GreeneAtlanta$18K
- Michelle SarievAtlanta$18K
- Christopher VreelandAtlanta$17K
- Angelica MillerAtlanta$15K
- Andrea Jefferson SaboorAtlanta$14K
- Allie McAllisterMarietta$299K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.