Morgan Arnold, MD
Dermatology · Athens, GANPI 1760988513
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.4% of the total across 289 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 32 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,728 and has fallen 55.8% since, to $1,205 in 2025.
Across 289 payments — averaging $21.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Pfizer$459
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$431
- UCB, Inc.$428
- Lilly USA, LLC$425
- Johnson & Johnson$401
- plus $3K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,11598%
- Education$1022%
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 | 53 | $1,276 |
| Pfizer | 25 | $459 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 24 | $431 |
| UCB, Inc. | 30 | $428 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 19 | $425 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $401 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 18 | $390 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 19 | $348 |
| Sanofi | 8 | $272 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 5 | $226 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 11 | $226 |
| Amgen | 8 | $203 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 8 | $177 |
| Novartis | 5 | $132 |
| Incyte Corporation | 6 | $117 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 6 | $99 |
| Medline Industries LP | 4 | $75 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $74 |
| Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $63 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Organon | 3 | $29 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $23 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $20 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Strata Skin Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$6,217 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 345 dermatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clobetasol Propionate | 87 | $3,450 |
| Fluocinonide | 61 | $2,462 |
| Tacrolimus | 16 | $2,077 |
| Fluorouracil | 26 | $2,036 |
| Metronidazole | 25 | $1,504 |
| Minocycline Hcl | 14 | $977 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 69 | $728 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 20 | $698 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 30 | $406 |
| Ketoconazole | 33 | $385 |
| Desonide | 11 | $376 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 11 | $261 |
| Mupirocin | 28 | $186 |
| Hydrocortisone | 31 | $178 |
| Prednisone | 18 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Athens
- Firas HougeirDouglasville$3.1M
- David CohenMacon$2.9M
- Zakiya RiceAtlanta$1.1M
- Joseph PayneAtlanta$711K
- Jonathan WeissSnellville$692K
- Jamie WeismanAtlanta$620K
- Mack RachalAtlanta$260K
- Tiffany Clay-RamseyMarietta$207K
- Jessica MercerSnellville$183K
- Sumayah TaliaferroAtlanta$104K
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.