Leopoldo Maldonado
Pediatrics · Columbus, GANPI 1831629831
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 72 payments — averaging $26.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$626
- Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$152
- Dexcom, Inc.$137
- Radius Health, Inc.$119
- Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.$113
- Tolmar, Inc.$88
- plus $709 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,85996%
- Education$844%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 16 | $626 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $152 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 7 | $137 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 4 | $119 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 4 | $113 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $84 |
| Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc | 4 | $83 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $80 |
| Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Insulet Corporation | 2 | $49 |
| BETA Bionics, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Cequr Corporation | 2 | $47 |
| Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $39 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Sequel Med Tech, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 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.
- TZIELD$390
How this compares
$1,944 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,111 pediatrics providers in Georgia.
Other pediatrics in Columbus
- Judith BennettColumbus$100K
- Adebayo AkinsolaChamblee$6.4M
- Yael ElfassySavannah$2.6M
- Rachel LinnemannAtlanta$2.2M
- Lance SladeMacon$1.7M
- Satheesh ChonatAtlanta$1.3M
- Yvonne SmithUnion City$1.2M
- Amir AshrafiAtlanta$653K
- Sandra ArmsteadLithonia$424K
- Scott BatchelorAtlanta$411K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.