Has Ronald Ligon received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $64,344 in general payments to Ronald Ligon across 200 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 Ronald Ligon 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 Ronald Ligon 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.

Ronald Ligon

Pediatric Cardiology · Stockbridge, GANPI 1073759379

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (46.3%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 51.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $26,095, 4.6 times the $5,626 reported in 2019. Among pediatric cardiology clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$64,344in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 200 payments — averaging $321.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$33K
Medtronic$25K
Penumbra, Inc.$2K
B. Braun Interventional Systems Inc.$2K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
Renata Medical, Inc.$321
plus $296 from 4 others

$26,131in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $13,065 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.

Merit Medical Systems Inc$26K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$10,67517%
Speaking & faculty fees$29,78846%
Grants$7841%
Travel & lodging$13,59721%
Food & beverage$9,50115%

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
Abbott	57	$32,949
Medtronic(2 entities)	90	$24,554
Penumbra, Inc.	12	$2,247
B. Braun Interventional Systems Inc.	6	$2,125
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	26	$1,852
Renata Medical, Inc.	3	$321
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$202
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	2	$45
Terumo Medical Corporation	2	$30
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	1	$19

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

$64,344 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 64 pediatric cardiology providers in Georgia.

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Other pediatric cardiology in Stockbridge

Matthew OsterStockbridge$1K
David JonesStockbridge$154
Michelle WallaceStockbridge$18
Dennis KimAtlanta$17K
Joseph LongSavannah$16K
Jay PatelAtlanta$4K
Mark VranicarAugusta$3K
Henaro SabinoRome$3K
Stephanie WechslerAtlanta$2K
James KuoAtlanta$2K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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