Michael Dempsey, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Columbus, GANPI 1962575597
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (54.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 60.8% of it on its own, with 30 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,724 and has fallen 92.5% since, to $428 in 2025. Among obstetrics & gynecology clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 152 payments — averaging $55.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- AbbVie$807
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$408
- Asensus Surgical, Inc.$401
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$279
- Pfizer$210
- plus $1K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4025%
- Food & beverage$3,41441%
- Education$4,59955%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 13 | $5,118 |
| AbbVie | 35 | $807 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 17 | $408 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $401 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 11 | $279 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $210 |
| Biogen | 3 | $147 |
| Caldera Medical, Inc | 2 | $138 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 8 | $133 |
| Bayer | 7 | $119 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 4 | $58 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 3 | $58 |
| Organon | 2 | $54 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Vertex | 2 | $32 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $25 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $24 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $22 |
| Optumhealth Care Solutions, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Lupin Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$4,500
- Senhance Surgical Robotics System$207
- Da Vinci Surgical System$190
- ACESSA PROVU SYSTEM$125
- Orilissa$110
- Zurzuvae$100
How this compares
$8,415 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,324 obstetrics & gynecology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol (Twice Weekly)Estradiol | 13 | $1,789 |
| Estradiol | 31 | $881 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Columbus
- James DorchakColumbus$33K
- Serena TidwellColumbus$16K
- Edmund KimLawrenceville$628K
- Jacquelin WaltersDuluth$147K
- Nicole SparksJohns Creek$121K
- Lethenia BakerThomaston$111K
- Renee AllenAtlanta$74K
- Matthew RalstenFayetteville$64K
- Murray FreedmanAugusta$48K
- Tosha Rogers-JonesAtlanta$46K
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.