Marlieke Nussenbaum, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Atlanta, GANPI 1013359447
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 12 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. at 34.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $639 and has fallen 81.7% since, to $117 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgical critical care clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $1,306.
Across 12 payments — averaging $118.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$485
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$281
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$145
- KCI USA, Inc.$125
- BD$117
- Axogen$117
- plus $152 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,421100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $485 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $281 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $145 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| BD | 1 | $117 |
| Axogen | 1 | $117 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
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.
- TENOGLIDE TENDON PROTECTOR SHEET$140
- NEURAGEN NERVE GUIDE$140
- ABTHERA$125
- VAC VERAFLO$125
- PREVENA$125
- HemoSphere$117
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$117
How this compares
$1,421 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 52 surgical critical care 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.
Other surgical critical care in Atlanta
- Jonathan NguyenAtlanta$410K
- Elizabeth BenjaminAtlanta$55K
- Peter BarrettAtlanta$7K
- Omar DannerAtlanta$6K
- Frank JonesAtlanta$5K
- Vanessa ArientylAtlanta$3K
- Manuela OchoaAtlanta$1K
- Deepika KogantiAtlanta$961
- Kristen Glasgow-PetelaAtlanta$863
- Erica RothAtlanta$539
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.