Has Richard Sola, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,398 in general payments to Richard Sola, MD across 43 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 Richard Sola, 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 Richard Sola, 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.

Richard Sola, MD

Surgical Critical Care · Marietta, GANPI 1801115530

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $7,032 of the $9,398 with a category attached, or 74.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 75.8% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,103, more than ten times the $296 reported in 2019.

$9,398in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $218.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$7K
Kerecis Limited$367
Prytime Medical Devices, Inc.$344
Johnson & Johnson$265
Zimmer Biomet$203
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$184
plus $917 from 16 others

$50in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $50.00 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.

Novo Nordisk$50

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1672%
Food & beverage$2,19923%
Education$7,03275%

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
Intuitive Surgical	7	$7,119
Kerecis Limited	2	$367
Prytime Medical Devices, Inc.	3	$344
Johnson & Johnson	5	$265
Zimmer Biomet	2	$203
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$184
Z-medica, LLC	1	$167
Conmed Corporation	2	$147
Teleflex LLC	1	$122
Davol Inc.	1	$112
BD	1	$71
CSL Behring	2	$58
Atricure, Inc.	3	$57
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	3	$46
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$25
Medtronic	1	$21
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$18
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$17
Biomerieux Inc	1	$15
Acell, Inc.	1	$14
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$14
Chiesi USA, Inc.	1	$12

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.

How this compares

$9,398 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 52 surgical critical care providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$32,107

Medicare patients

148

Services billed

223

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
Tramadol Hcl	19	$41

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Romeo MassoudLawrenceville$27K
Dennis AshleyMacon$16K
Craig McCreadyRoswell$14K
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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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