Melanie Thomas
Acute Care · Atlanta, GANPI 1902538648
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 28 payments — averaging $69.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$589
- Prime Surgical, LLC$523
- DJO, LLC$183
- Curonix LLC$131
- AstraZeneca$122
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$122
- plus $280 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$99151%
- Food & beverage$95949%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 9 | $589 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 1 | $523 |
| DJO, LLC | 4 | $183 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $131 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $122 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $86 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $5 |
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
$1,950 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 679 acute 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 73 | $1,227 |
| Meloxicam | 17 | $110 |
| Methocarbamol | 13 | $71 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Atlanta
- Sarah WymanAtlanta$10K
- Ayeshia PowellAtlanta$10K
- Michael WattsAtlanta$6K
- Merry NevilleAtlanta$5K
- Annalee EdwardsAtlanta$5K
- Jamie ThreattAtlanta$5K
- Kenya RaglandAtlanta$4K
- Emma HallAtlanta$4K
- Gretchen HallAtlanta$4K
- Summer DaviesAtlanta$4K
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.