Michael Early
Family Medicine · Fort Valley, GANPI 1376613570
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 147 payments — averaging $28.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$917
- Pfizer$544
- Novo Nordisk$449
- Boehringer Ingelheim$393
- Johnson & Johnson$294
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$292
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,148100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 37 | $917 |
| Pfizer | 15 | $544 |
| Novo Nordisk | 13 | $449 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 10 | $393 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $294 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 8 | $292 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $217 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $170 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 12 | $164 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 11 | $157 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $144 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $124 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $103 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $97 |
| Merck | 2 | $34 |
| Biogen | 1 | $20 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $13 |
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
$4,148 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.
Other family medicine in Fort Valley
- Joseph SurberColumbus$16.6M
- Angela RitterGainesville$15.8M
- Jeffrey KingsleyColumbus$8.1M
- Christopher OldfieldSavannah$6.4M
- Darrell MurrayAtlanta$3.9M
- Ben ThomasAtlanta$3.2M
- Debbie HaginsSavannah$2.1M
- Aziz PiraniLilburn$2.1M
- Nadia CameronAtlanta$2.1M
- John LentzSnellville$1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.