Joanna Suarez
Pediatrics · Commerce, GANPI 1144314105
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 117 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 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among pediatrics 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 117 payments — averaging $18.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$471
- Corium, LLC$200
- Novo Nordisk$171
- Boehringer Ingelheim$156
- Merck$144
- Johnson & Johnson$135
- plus $938 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,216100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 24 | $471 |
| Corium, LLC | 14 | $200 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $171 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $156 |
| Merck | 10 | $144 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $135 |
| Amgen | 8 | $134 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 7 | $133 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $86 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $83 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $42 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| GSK | 2 | $34 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $34 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $25 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Abbott | 1 | $20 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Ozempic$128
How this compares
$2,216 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,111 pediatrics providers in Georgia.
Other pediatrics in Commerce
- Amir AshrafiAtlanta$563K
- Sandra ArmsteadLithonia$424K
- Satheesh ChonatAtlanta$147K
- Karen ZimowskiAtlanta$139K
- F CantrellMarietta$129K
- Iyabode Akinsanya-BeysolowAtlanta$103K
- Lauren MiddlebrooksAtlanta$71K
- Rebecca EmoryAtlanta$40K
- Mark GriffithsAtlanta$34K
- Kelly TickleAtlanta$29K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.