Has Meredith Sawyer received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,771 in general payments to Meredith Sawyer across 51 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Meredith Sawyer did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Meredith Sawyer come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Meredith Sawyer

Family · Atlanta, GANPI 1609394089

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,771in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $34.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$575
Alkermes, Inc.$443
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$225
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$223
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$151
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$47
plus $106 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,765100%
Education$50%

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	31	$575
Alkermes, Inc.	4	$443
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$225
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	4	$223
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$151
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	2	$47
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	2	$43
Immedica Pharma US, Inc.	1	$24
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$20
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$19

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

$1,771 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 6,258 family providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$38,192

Medicare patients

Services billed

304

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
EliquisApixaban	25	$11,233
XareltoRivaroxaban	24	$5,331
Memantine Hcl	106	$2,898
Quetiapine Fumarate	171	$1,524
Divalproex Sodium	44	$1,325
Aripiprazole	15	$878
Rosuvastatin Calcium	47	$793
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	33	$726
Donepezil Hcl	114	$691
Atorvastatin Calcium	80	$642
Escitalopram Oxalate	56	$576
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	53	$562
Risperidone	47	$467
Bupropion Hcl SrBupropion Hcl	11	$436
Sertraline Hcl	48	$432

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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