Has Patrick Sullivan, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $41,065 in general payments to Patrick Sullivan, MD across 51 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Patrick Sullivan, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Patrick Sullivan, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Patrick Sullivan, MD

Colon & Rectal Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1790969780

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $29,955 of the $41,065 with a category attached, or 72.9%. Merck accounts for 61.9% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$41,065in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $805.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Merck$25K
Intuitive Surgical$8K
Gilead$7K
Medtronic$127
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$57

$308,499in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $77,125 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Gilead$308K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$29,95573%
Travel & lodging$3,0637%
Food & beverage$1,5474%
Education$6,50016%

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
Merck	19	$25,414
Intuitive Surgical	20	$8,443
Gilead	9	$7,024
Medtronic	1	$127
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	2	$57

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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$8,066
Signia$127

How this compares

$41,065 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 66 colon & rectal surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$64,527

Medicare patients

180

Services billed

325

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
EliquisApixaban	14	$6,738
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	46	$586
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	17	$277
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	14	$207
Tramadol Hcl	38	$63
Oxycodone Hcl	18	$63
Gabapentin	12	$45
Metronidazole	11	$20

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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