Kellie Lane, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Augusta, GANPI 1396787321
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 198 payments — averaging $32.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Pfizer$528
- Amgen$440
- Novartis$431
- Boehringer Ingelheim$327
- Boston Scientific$286
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,10933%
- Food & beverage$4,30067%
- Education$461%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 10 | $2,749 |
| Pfizer | 30 | $528 |
| Amgen | 18 | $440 |
| Novartis | 24 | $431 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 18 | $327 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $286 |
| Novo Nordisk | 12 | $268 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 18 | $246 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $160 |
| Merck | 7 | $149 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 8 | $140 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $106 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $99 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $79 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $54 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $47 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $44 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $21 |
| GSK | 1 | $19 |
| Bayer | 1 | $18 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $15 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 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.
- Micra$171
- Repatha$148
- WATCHMAN FLX$146
How this compares
$6,454 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 640 cardiovascular disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 570 | $546,372 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 205 | $204,304 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 169 | $178,696 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 162 | $156,675 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 91 | $116,603 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 33 | $30,941 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 22 | $28,853 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 36 | $28,443 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 22 | $26,427 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 19 | $24,420 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 23 | $18,714 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 19 | $16,769 |
| CorlanorIvabradine Hcl | 29 | $15,902 |
| Dofetilide | 72 | $13,375 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 291 | $12,021 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $528 | $546,372570 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $246 | $204,304205 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $431 | $156,675162 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $327 | $116,60391 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $268 | $30,94133 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $106 | $26,42722 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $43 | $24,42019 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $19 | $18,71423 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $149 | $16,76919 claims |
| AmgenCorlanor | $440 | $15,90229 claims |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbi | $32 | $6,46913 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.
Other cardiovascular disease in Augusta
- Avirup GuhaAugusta$284K
- Narendra SinghJohns Creek$5.4M
- Elizabeth OfiliAtlanta$4.5M
- Sanjay YadavAtlanta$3.7M
- Arshed QuyyumiAtlanta$3.4M
- Naresh ParikhNorcross$2.8M
- Nicolas ChronosEatonton$2.4M
- Bobby KhanAtlanta$1.7M
- Hunter ChampionColumbus$1.5M
- David SuhTucker$1.1M
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.