Joel Stewart, MD
Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck · Carrollton, GANPI 1447293584
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,414 of the $4,016 with a category attached, or 60.1%. AbbVie accounts for 67.4% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,206 and has fallen 91.3% since, to $192 in 2025.
Across 99 payments — averaging $40.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$263
- Medtronic$214
- Comsort, Inc$150
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$119
- Boston Scientific$106
- plus $456 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3158%
- Travel & lodging$1,28732%
- Food & beverage$2,41460%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 56 | $2,708 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 11 | $263 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $214 |
| Comsort, Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $119 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $106 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $93 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $79 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $78 |
| Stryker | 1 | $43 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $13 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, 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.
How this compares
$4,016 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 24 plastic surgery within the head and neck providers in Georgia.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 31 | $208 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 27 | $199 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 16 | $132 |
| Cephalexin | 34 | $116 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 31 | $113 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 15 | $84 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 19 | $68 |
| Methocarbamol | 14 | $56 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery within the head and neck in Carrollton
- Mihir PatelAtlanta$194K
- Clementino SolaresAtlanta$86K
- Nicole SchmittAtlanta$16K
- Jennifer GrossAtlanta$11K
- Elizabeth WhitakerAtlanta$10K
- Brian BoyceAtlanta$7K
- Daniel SharbelAugusta$6K
- Louis DejosephAtlanta$5K
- Christopher NickelAtlanta$5K
- Forest WeirAugusta$3K
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.