Samantha Newman, PA
Surgical · Gainesville, GANPI 1912541533
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (38.9%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intrinsic Therapeutics at 45.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,902 and has fallen 55.4% since, to $1,293 in 2025. Among surgical 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.
Across 77 payments — averaging $99.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$4K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- United Orthopedics LLC$929
- Spineology Inc.$609
- Arthrex$581
- Johnson & Johnson$206
- plus $475 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,43832%
- Speaking & faculty fees$87511%
- Travel & lodging$1,22916%
- Food & beverage$2,98339%
- Education$1372%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 12 | $3,512 |
| Boston Scientific | 28 | $1,349 |
| United Orthopedics LLC | 3 | $929 |
| Spineology Inc. | 3 | $609 |
| Arthrex | 12 | $581 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $206 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 8 | $156 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $49 |
| BD | 1 | $46 |
| Vertex | 1 | $29 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $28 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Smith+Nephew | 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.
How this compares
$7,661 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 372 surgical 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 27 | $314 |
| Methocarbamol | 15 | $80 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 22 | $50 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical in Gainesville
- Sean PerryGainesville$7K
- Austin MalcomGainesville$6K
- Allison HeddenGainesville$5K
- Lacey RovinelliGainesville$4K
- Rachel MetzGainesville$4K
- Lauren EdekerAlpharetta$305K
- Michael BerkeAtlanta$242K
- Emily WatsonAtlanta$150K
- Beretta Craft-CoffmanCanton$30K
- Sarah NayebosadriDuluth$28K
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.