Rhona Curtsinger
Gerontology · Ringgold, GANPI 1982478418
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 82 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 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 82 payments — averaging $22.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$271
- Pfizer$259
- GSK$183
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$142
- Novo Nordisk$138
- Dexcom, Inc.$124
- plus $745 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,863100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $271 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $259 |
| GSK | 11 | $183 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $142 |
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $138 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 4 | $124 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $116 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $96 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $78 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $75 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $43 |
| Novartis | 2 | $39 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Bayer | 1 | $22 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
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.
- AIRSUPRA$125
- GEMTESA$120
- Monoferric$101
How this compares
$1,863 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 197 gerontology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 27 | $8,238 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 46 | $1,565 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 108 | $1,049 |
| Prednisone | 59 | $511 |
| Ipratropium Bromide | 15 | $416 |
| Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride | 15 | $373 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 33 | $302 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 31 | $278 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 30 | $205 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 23 | $140 |
| Azithromycin | 24 | $140 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 42 | $125 |
| Mupirocin | 13 | $113 |
| Levofloxacin | 23 | $81 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $73 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gerontology in Ringgold
- Carolyn ClevengerAtlanta$65K
- Mitzi LewisAtlanta$37K
- Constance MeinkenAtlanta$36K
- Britni JohnsonSavannah$24K
- Doreen AbrigoWarner Robins$14K
- Taylor SwineaWaycross$10K
- Michelle DudleyMacon$10K
- Kathleen BradfordAtlanta$8K
- Teresa VickersWarner Robins$6K
- Melissa RusterucciPeachtree City$6K
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.