Nicole Turgeon, MD
Transplant Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1972594109
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $92,524 of the $129,915 with a category attached, or 71.2%. Vertex accounts for 76.1% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Among transplant surgery 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 88 payments — averaging $1476.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertex$99K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$31K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$92,52471%
- Speaking & faculty fees$16,62513%
- Travel & lodging$20,07215%
- Food & beverage$6951%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vertex | 78 | $98,922 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 10 | $30,993 |
How this compares
$129,915 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 29 transplant surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Valganciclovir Hcl | 22 | $3,562 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 11 | $594 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 40 | $186 |
| Prednisone | 28 | $110 |
| Famotidine | 17 | $80 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other transplant surgery in Atlanta
- Stuart KnechtleAtlanta$88K
- Allan KirkAtlanta$80K
- Andrew AdamsAtlanta$60K
- Evan WeitmanAtlanta$40K
- Clark KensingerAtlanta$35K
- Juliano RiellaAtlanta$15K
- Harrison PollingerAtlanta$9K
- Marty SellersAtlanta$4K
- Jonathan HundleyAtlanta$4K
- Steven KimAtlanta$3K
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.