Samantha Kuebler
Physician Assistant · Augusta, GANPI 1538867510
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 54 payments — averaging $27.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$402
- Merck$187
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$119
- AbbVie$108
- Boston Scientific$98
- Coloplast$87
- plus $469 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$19914%
- Food & beverage$1,23484%
- Education$362%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 8 | $402 |
| Merck | 7 | $187 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 5 | $119 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $108 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $98 |
| Coloplast | 3 | $87 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $37 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $31 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Bayer | 1 | $22 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $18 |
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $17 |
| Calyxo, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Novartis | 1 | $16 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
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.
- INTERSTIM$159
How this compares
$1,469 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 3,581 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| GemtesaVibegron | 91 | $91,699 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 45 | $42,681 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 460 | $5,437 |
| Estradiol | 61 | $4,752 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 28 | $2,513 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 122 | $2,477 |
| Bethanechol Chloride | 47 | $2,446 |
| Finasteride | 141 | $1,847 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 168 | $1,665 |
| Dutasteride-TamsulosinDutasteride/Tamsulosin Hcl | 11 | $1,495 |
| Testosterone | 15 | $1,337 |
| Fesoterodine Fumarate ErFesoterodine Fumarate | 12 | $1,206 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 11 | $1,115 |
| Testosterone Cypionate | 27 | $789 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 104 | $443 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $119 | $91,69991 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $31 | $42,68145 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 3,581 physician assistant providers in Georgia.
Other physician assistant in Augusta
- Jonell PoeAugusta$18K
- Julie BuirdAugusta$17K
- Kolyse CaverAugusta$16K
- Lacey PrestonAugusta$15K
- Douglas DiruggieroCartersville$1.3M
- Jennifer CobbsAtlanta$1M
- A BrunnerStockbridge$1M
- Joseph LangshawCalhoun$887K
- Alison MoeAtlanta$410K
- Maggie SchreckAtlanta$389K
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.