Katherine Kohler, MD
Trauma Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1790946762
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 18 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 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for trauma surgery clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $1,082.
Across 18 payments — averaging $45.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- TELA Bio, Inc.$128
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$124
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$116
- Teleflex LLC$115
- Baxter Healthcare$87
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$86
- plus $158 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$814100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $124 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $116 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $115 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $87 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $86 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $20 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $3 |
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
$814 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 35 trauma surgery providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 14 | $65 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 22 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other trauma surgery in Atlanta
- Philip RamsayAtlanta$7K
- Ariana MetchikAtlanta$3K
- Avinash BhavarajuAtlanta$1K
- Raquiah CarterAtlanta$787
- Lauren NosanovAtlanta$499
- James WalkerAtlanta$369
- James BoronAtlanta$337
- William VassyGainesville$116K
- Malcolm GoodchildColumbus$23K
- William BrombergSavannah$13K
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.