Laura Vanpatten, NP
Nurse Practitioner · Atlanta, GANPI 1073748919
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.2% of the total across 231 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 32 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,567, 7.2 times the $217 reported in 2021. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 231 payments — averaging $21.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Harmony Biosciences LLC$801
- AstraZeneca$605
- Boehringer Ingelheim$457
- Grifols USA, LLC$383
- Sanofi$338
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$221
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,79996%
- Education$1904%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 37 | $801 |
| AstraZeneca | 32 | $605 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 20 | $457 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 15 | $383 |
| Sanofi | 13 | $338 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 12 | $221 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 9 | $220 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 15 | $213 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 9 | $208 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $189 |
| Merck | 8 | $179 |
| GSK | 6 | $120 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $110 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 4 | $93 |
| Bayer | 5 | $92 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $86 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 3 | $83 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 5 | $74 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $55 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Amgen | 3 | $45 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Resmed Corp | 1 | $20 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
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
$4,989 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,328 nurse practitioner 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pramipexole DihydrochloridePramipexole Di-Hcl | 14 | $1,047 |
| Doxepin Hcl | 27 | $245 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $73 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Atlanta
- Janice McAlisterAtlanta$221K
- Laura ElledgeAtlanta$177K
- Casey MillerAtlanta$41K
- Kathryn InanAtlanta$17K
- Colby DoepelAtlanta$16K
- Mark HebertAtlanta$15K
- Ashley BlackmonAtlanta$13K
- Alexia CovingtonAtlanta$13K
- Marissa TorresAtlanta$12K
- Hayley TurnerAtlanta$11K
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.