Nandah Hichkad
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (39.6%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Mirus, LLC at 28.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,972 and has fallen 63.4% since, to $722 in 2025. Among surgical clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 52 payments — averaging $114.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mirus, LLC$2K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Choice Spine, LLC$1K
- Medtronic$776
- Boston Scientific$195
- Dexcom, Inc.$145
- plus $437 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,70029%
- Travel & lodging$2,35040%
- Food & beverage$1,38623%
- Education$5008%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mirus, LLC | 2 | $1,715 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 10 | $1,642 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 2 | $1,025 |
| Medtronic | 15 | $776 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $195 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $145 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $124 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $107 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Stryker | 1 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$1,700
- CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$1,700
- MiRus 3DR Lumbar Interbody System$1,700
- IO Expandable Lumbar Interbody$1,700
- RIGEL 3DR Cervical Interbody$1,700
- Blackhawk Cervical Spacer System$1,025
- Boomerang$1,025
- TIGERSHARK C$1,025
- Harrier SA Lumbar Interbody System$1,025
- Stratofuse$1,025
- XLIF$880
- DEXCOM G7 GSS (161)$131
- RYBELSUS$124
- MIDAS REX$104
How this compares
$5,935 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 372 surgical 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.
Other surgical in Macon
- Sarah ApplegarthMacon$5K
- Lauren EdekerAlpharetta$305K
- Michael BerkeAtlanta$242K
- Emily WatsonAtlanta$150K
- Beretta Craft-CoffmanCanton$30K
- Sarah NayebosadriDuluth$28K
- Kenneth NorrisLawrenceville$19K
- Scott LinacreLawrenceville$19K
- Richard HeimbeckerLawrenceville$15K
- Steven SnipesAlbany$14K
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.