Karen Thrower
Pediatrics · Kennesaw, GANPI 1043262991
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 71 payments — averaging $21.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$351
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$174
- EMD Serono, Inc.$146
- Corium, LLC$144
- Amgen$109
- Tris Pharma Inc$98
- plus $540 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$745%
- Food & beverage$1,45293%
- Education$70%
- Other$272%
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. | 18 | $351 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 11 | $174 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 4 | $146 |
| Corium, LLC | 7 | $144 |
| Amgen | 1 | $109 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 5 | $98 |
| Abbott | 1 | $74 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 4 | $66 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $54 |
| Merck | 3 | $45 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 2 | $38 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $27 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Aytu Biopharma, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- UPLIZNA$109
How this compares
$1,561 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,111 pediatrics providers in Georgia.
Other pediatrics in Kennesaw
- Monica MooreKennesaw$69K
- Adebayo AkinsolaChamblee$6.4M
- Yael ElfassySavannah$2.6M
- Rachel LinnemannAtlanta$2.2M
- Lance SladeMacon$1.7M
- Satheesh ChonatAtlanta$1.3M
- Yvonne SmithUnion City$1.2M
- Amir AshrafiAtlanta$653K
- Sandra ArmsteadLithonia$424K
- Scott BatchelorAtlanta$411K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.