Mark Sims
Gastroenterology · Atlanta, GANPI 1932103504
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 172 payments — averaging $17.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$891
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$826
- Gilead$274
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$262
- Johnson & Johnson$156
- Amgen$107
- plus $408 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,81996%
- Education$873%
- Gifts$171%
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(2 entities) | 48 | $891 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 55 | $826 |
| Gilead | 15 | $274 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 16 | $262 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $156 |
| Amgen | 6 | $107 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 5 | $75 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 4 | $62 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Merck | 2 | $34 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $32 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $31 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$2,924 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 492 gastroenterology providers in Georgia.
Other gastroenterology in Atlanta
- Douglas WolfAtlanta$6.4M
- Michael GalambosAtlanta$1.8M
- Nitin GuptaAtlanta$1.7M
- Heba IskandarAtlanta$978K
- Cynthia RudertAtlanta$720K
- Kavita KongaraAtlanta$492K
- Girish AnandAtlanta$425K
- Julia LiuAtlanta$412K
- Norman GitlinAtlanta$399K
- Saul KarpenAtlanta$368K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.