Nicole James
Physician Assistant · Athens, GANPI 1952519027
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.2% of the total across 367 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 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,316, 4.4 times the $532 reported in 2021. Among physician assistant 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 367 payments — averaging $18.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$814
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$748
- Alkermes, Inc.$608
- Johnson & Johnson$591
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$534
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,82399%
- Education$541%
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.
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.
- SPRAVATO$139
How this compares
$6,878 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,581 physician assistant providers in Georgia.
Other physician assistant in Athens
- Douglas DiruggieroCartersville$1.3M
- Jennifer CobbsAtlanta$1M
- A BrunnerStockbridge$1M
- Joseph LangshawCalhoun$879K
- Alison MoeAtlanta$410K
- Maggie SchreckAtlanta$389K
- Lisa HillMarietta$190K
- Laura BishopBrunswick$103K
- Jaime AckermanAtlanta$84K
- Richard BurrellBrunswick$69K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.