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Joseph Herren

Internal Medicine · Rome, GANPI 1205835360

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.0% of the total across 346 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 40 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 11.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,661 and has fallen 99.0% since, to $17 in 2024.

$4,834in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 346 payments — averaging $13.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$564
  • AbbVie$493
  • Amgen$468
  • AstraZeneca$382
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$257
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$204
  • plus $2K from 34 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,78499%
  • Education$491%

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

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Amarin Pharma, Inc.37$564
AbbVie(2 entities)39$493
Amgen31$468
AstraZeneca27$382
Astellas Pharma US Inc16$257
Boehringer Ingelheim14$204
Novo Nordisk13$177
Pfizer17$169
Merck13$169
GSK12$164
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.3$160
Lilly USA, LLC10$129
Novartis8$126
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.7$124
Johnson & Johnson10$124
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.8$121
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.25$116
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC7$111
Eisai Inc.7$97
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.5$82
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.4$73
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC5$72
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.4$72
Mylan Specialty L.p.3$50
Radius Health, Inc.2$38
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.2$38
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.3$37
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc2$33
Bausch Health US, LLC1$23
Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.1$21
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.1$20
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC1$17
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.1$15
Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC1$14
Lundbeck LLC1$14
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.1$13
Medicure Pharma Inc.1$12
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.1$12
Biogen1$12
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals 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.

How this compares

$4,834 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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