RxDoctor Payments Data

Kelly Carson, MD

Gastroenterology · Atlanta, GANPI 1801859327

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,113in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 434 payments — averaging $18.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$995
  • Sanofi$656
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$566
  • Pfizer$538
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$410
  • plus $3K from 30 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,05399%
  • Education$421%
  • Gifts$180%

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.

How this compares

$8,113 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 492 gastroenterology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$122,087
Medicare patients
436
Services billed
784

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Humira PenAdalimumab13$87,500
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase18$19,447
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates222$15,145
LinzessLinaclotide16$14,779
Mesalamine11$2,898
Pantoprazole Sodium147$1,822
Ursodiol13$1,314
Omeprazole87$681
Famotidine23$232
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl17$183
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron11$166

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AbbVieCreon, Linzess$2,128$34,22634 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 65th percentile of 492 gastroenterology providers in Georgia.

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