Ron Alleyne
Obesity Medicine · Marietta, GANPI 1366741068
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 194 payments — averaging $16.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- AstraZeneca$391
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$149
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$137
- Vivus LLC$135
- Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC$117
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,247100%
- Education$40%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 78 | $1,301 |
| AstraZeneca | 19 | $391 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $149 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $137 |
| Vivus LLC | 10 | $135 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 8 | $117 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $110 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $110 |
| Amgen | 7 | $103 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $103 |
| Merck | 7 | $94 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 5 | $91 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $72 |
| GSK | 4 | $49 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $46 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| Novartis | 2 | $32 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 1 | $14 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $13 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $11 |
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
Too few obesity medicine providers in Georgiato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other obesity medicine in Marietta
- Angelina CainMarietta$2K
- Alicia ShellyDouglasville$203K
- Glenn GatiponKennesaw$10K
- Laura GuadianaValdosta$5K
- Glorivel Koury de RamosAtlanta$107
- David SowellGriffin$23
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.