Luca Debs
Neurological Surgery · Augusta, GANPI 1457814790
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (52.1%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 40.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,180, more than ten times the $699 reported in 2019.
Across 115 payments — averaging $127.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$6K
- Medtronic$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Microvention, Inc.$807
- Livanova USA, Inc.$449
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,65652%
- Food & beverage$4,22029%
- Education$2,82219%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 39 | $5,876 |
| Medtronic | 24 | $2,404 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 5 | $1,725 |
| Stryker | 9 | $1,670 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 1 | $807 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 8 | $449 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $215 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $171 |
| Abbott | 2 | $153 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $152 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Aegis Spine, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $122 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 2 | $108 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $100 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $98 |
| Leica Microsystems Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $29 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $24 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $23 |
| Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $19 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| AstraZeneca | 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.
- TRUFILL$2,745
- Pipeline$1,696
- Smart Coil$1,616
- SURPASS EVOLVE$870
- ERIC RETRIEVAL DEVICE$807
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$807
- STENT$807
- UNIVERSAL NEURO 3$362
- ACTIS$279
- VNS THERAPY SENTIVA MODEL 1000 GENERATOR$274
- ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$152
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$144
- MIDAS REX$136
- NEURO$128
- VITOSS$128
- MAGEC$122
- Kcentra$122
- Cerenovus Enterprise$115
- Penumbra System$109
- VNS - Sentiva$105
How this compares
$14,698 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 201 neurological surgery providers in Georgia.
Other neurological surgery in Augusta
- Abdulaziz AlmubarakAugusta$82K
- Fernando ValeAugusta$67K
- Ildemaro VolcanAugusta$55K
- Scott RahimiAugusta$39K
- Jonathan TuttleAugusta$21K
- Regis HaidAtlanta$25.5M
- John CowanRome$3.2M
- Thomas MorrisonAtlanta$2.8M
- Christopher TomarasAtlanta$1.5M
- Daniel RefaiAtlanta$1.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.