Stephanie Higdon
Family · Duluth, GANPI 1346715927
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $27,938 of the $28,065 with a category attached, or 99.5%. Lilly USA, LLC accounts for 99.8% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $16,463, more than ten times the $22 reported in 2023. Among family 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 63 payments — averaging $445.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$28K
- AbbVie$22
- Abbott$21
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$27,938100%
- Travel & lodging$110%
- Food & beverage$1170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 61 | $28,023 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
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.
- OMVOH$27,938
How this compares
$28,065 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,258 family 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 227 | $102,049 |
| NuplazidPimavanserin Tartrate | 12 | $63,875 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 76 | $34,628 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 85 | $27,468 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 50 | $24,830 |
| Memantine Hcl | 454 | $16,429 |
| Aripiprazole | 31 | $8,141 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 13 | $7,658 |
| RytaryCarbidopa/Levodopa | 15 | $5,725 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 458 | $5,665 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 507 | $5,545 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 13 | $4,904 |
| Donepezil Hcl | 515 | $4,904 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 385 | $4,686 |
| Ezetimibe | 161 | $4,314 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Duluth
- Allie McAllisterMarietta$299K
- Erin HenryLawrenceville$135K
- Trisha RomanPeachtree City$134K
- Lori ReedMarietta$106K
- Julia BranchCumming$102K
- Hannah BanachWaycross$85K
- Morgan GroothandEvans$81K
- Anna Carolina WrightLilburn$69K
- Jessica FeehanCanton$51K
- Julia ThorneCanton$39K
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.