Lauren Russell
Medical · Smyrna, GANPI 1023633799
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 156 payments — averaging $21.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$870
- Novo Nordisk$794
- GSK$383
- AstraZeneca$279
- Lilly USA, LLC$239
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$179
- plus $666 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,409100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 41 | $870 |
| Novo Nordisk | 33 | $794 |
| GSK | 14 | $383 |
| AstraZeneca | 11 | $279 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 14 | $239 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $179 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 5 | $92 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $83 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $63 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $60 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 3 | $56 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $41 |
| Amgen | 3 | $38 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $31 |
| Bayer | 1 | $25 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| BD | 1 | $17 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$3,409 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 950 medical providers in Georgia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Losartan Potassium | 23 | $313 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 15 | $97 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 16 | $84 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 14 | $64 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other medical in Smyrna
- Tomas ChaoWoodstock$1.9M
- Kimberly OrleckAtlanta$727K
- Audrey GibsonGainesville$302K
- Lisa WeissCanton$283K
- Laura BushFayetteville$146K
- Michael KelleherMarietta$126K
- Juliena GigonMarietta$122K
- Felicia HoffmanRoswell$114K
- Sally BrumbillLithia Springs$110K
- Danna Dennis-CalderAtlanta$87K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.