Ogechi Mbakwe, MD
Internal Medicine · Statesboro, GANPI 1992861603
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 126 payments — averaging $15.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$797
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$171
- AbbVie$128
- Genentech USA, Inc.$127
- Bayer$81
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$79
- plus $630 from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$201%
- Food & beverage$1,99499%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 52 | $797 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 10 | $171 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $128 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 7 | $127 |
| Bayer | 5 | $81 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 5 | $79 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 2 | $67 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Novartis | 4 | $53 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $40 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $39 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Biogen | 2 | $34 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $31 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Linus Health, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| ADMA Biomanufacturing LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Strongbridge US Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$2,014 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enbrel SureclickEtanercept | 61 | $503,074 |
| OrenciaAbatacept/Maltose | 27 | $136,116 |
| ActemraTocilizumab | 25 | $57,000 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 51 | $56,021 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 15 | $31,546 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 24 | $27,859 |
| KerendiaFinerenone | 20 | $23,357 |
| EdarbiAzilsartan Medoxomil | 31 | $20,189 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 35 | $15,821 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 13 | $14,321 |
| EdarbyclorAzilsartan Med/Chlorthalidone | 12 | $9,711 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 17 | $3,763 |
| Novolog FlexpenInsulin Aspart | 12 | $3,191 |
| Omega-3 Acid Ethyl Esters | 17 | $2,881 |
| Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro | 23 | $2,574 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Orencia | $16 | $136,11627 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $40 | $87,56766 claims |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbi, Edarbyclor | $42 | $29,90043 claims |
| BayerKerendia | $81 | $23,35720 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $25 | $14,32113 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.
Other internal medicine in Statesboro
- Paul BradleySavannah$76.4M
- Kimball JohnsonAtlanta$51.1M
- Bram WieskopfWoodstock$21.9M
- Dwight BlakeUnion City$13.3M
- Charlotte Grayson-MathisFayetteville$9.6M
- Christopher RecknorGainesville$9.2M
- James HarperJohns Creek$9.2M
- Robert Springer IiiAtlanta$5.3M
- Thomas MoriaritySavannah$4.6M
- Charles KempAlbany$2.7M
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.