Sierra Phillips, MD
Hand Surgery · Austell, GANPI 1609287168
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $10,000 of the $15,452 with a category attached, or 64.7%. Arthrex accounts for 64.7% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $12,478 and has fallen 94.6% since, to $668 in 2025.
Across 59 payments — averaging $261.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$10K
- Axogen$2K
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$1K
- Trimed, Inc.$535
- Johnson & Johnson$313
- Smith+Nephew$275
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$10,00065%
- Travel & lodging$1,2148%
- Food & beverage$4,18627%
- Entertainment$520%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 1 | $10,000 |
| Axogen | 5 | $1,939 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 2 | $1,210 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 5 | $535 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $313 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $275 |
| Acumed LLC | 4 | $250 |
| Biom'up SA | 2 | $167 |
| Stryker | 2 | $143 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $134 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $128 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 3 | $74 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $50 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $45 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $42 |
| United Orthopedics LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| My01 Inc. | 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.
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$1,881
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$1,881
- Geminus$1,210
- Align$1,210
- IJS$1,210
- Implate$1,210
- Tools - WFS$483
- Polarus 3 Solution$139
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$125
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$125
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$125
- AUGMENT$102
- VA-LCP$101
How this compares
$15,452 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 77 hand surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 68 | $982 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 35 | $692 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 96 | $457 |
| Methylprednisolone | 78 | $444 |
| Gabapentin | 27 | $363 |
| Meloxicam | 121 | $351 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 37 | $214 |
| Naproxen | 29 | $162 |
| Ibuprofen | 26 | $141 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 71 | $126 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $86 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Austell
- Mikael StareckiAustell$2K
- Eric WagnerAtlanta$173K
- Phani DantuluriAtlanta$120K
- Gregory KolovichSavannah$103K
- Michael ShulerAthens$99K
- Travis LittletonAtlanta$35K
- Nicole ZelenskiAtlanta$34K
- Justin BarrettGainesville$33K
- Tobias von BergenStockbridge$27K
- James SprattAtlanta$18K
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.