Kevin Charles, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Gainesville, GANPI 1649616558
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.9% of the total across 28 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company at 32.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $420 and has fallen 73.6% since, to $111 in 2025.
Across 28 payments — averaging $27.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$251
- Boehringer Ingelheim$85
- Grifols USA, LLC$51
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$44
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$41
- Pfizer$38
- plus $264 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$75798%
- Education$162%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 3 | $251 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $85 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 2 | $51 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $41 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $38 |
| BD | 1 | $35 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $35 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $31 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $27 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $26 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| GSK | 1 | $14 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
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.
- GIAPREZA$238
How this compares
$773 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 265 critical care medicine 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.
Other critical care medicine in Gainesville
- April McDonaldGainesville$41K
- Usha NayakGainesville$4K
- Joe ClementsGainesville$3K
- Salman FidahusseinLagrange$852K
- Bruce FriedmanAugusta$629K
- Gregory MauldinSnellville$221K
- Ramzy RimawiAtlanta$72K
- Rafael Alba YunenBrunswick$58K
- Matthew SchmittAtlanta$32K
- Prasad GarimellaBraselton$20K
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.