Pickens Patterson
Interventional Pain Medicine · Atlanta, GANPI 1316926058
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.8%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 28 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 45.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,108 and has fallen 93.8% since, to $192 in 2024.
Across 167 payments — averaging $38.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Abbott$2K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$362
- Amgen$277
- Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.$202
- Pfizer$194
- plus $865 from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,73243%
- Food & beverage$3,56856%
- Education$931%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 35 | $2,915 |
| Abbott | 26 | $1,579 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 26 | $362 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 11 | $277 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 8 | $202 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $194 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $167 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 8 | $118 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 5 | $67 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $56 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Novartis | 1 | $20 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $14 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $12 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $10 |
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.
- SUPERION$1,025
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$867
- Proclaim IPG$573
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$297
- BELBUCA$125
- Zilretta$122
- AIMOVIG$115
How this compares
$6,393 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 129 interventional pain medicine providers in Georgia.
Other interventional pain medicine in Atlanta
- Alexandra MoreiraAtlanta$79K
- Logan BurgessAtlanta$11K
- Allen HordAtlanta$9K
- Mayson CallawayAtlanta$9K
- Jignesh GandhiAtlanta$8K
- Naureen AdamAtlanta$6K
- Shawn CableAtlanta$5K
- Emmanuel GageBrunswick$602K
- Jordan TateJasper$540K
- Christopher BovinetBrunswick$338K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.