Stephen Kushins, MD
Anesthesiology · Lawrenceville, GANPI 1730352691
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $52,920 of the $61,568 with a category attached, or 86.0%. Merck accounts for 99.1% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $52,572 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $56 in 2025. Among anesthesiology 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 99 payments — averaging $621.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$61K
- Atricure, Inc.$310
- B. Braun Medical Inc.$57
- Edwards Lifesciences$37
- Abiomed$28
- Mindray DS USA, Inc.$28
- plus $70 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$52,92086%
- Travel & lodging$6,43410%
- Food & beverage$2,2144%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 84 | $61,039 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $310 |
| B. Braun Medical Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $37 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $28 |
| Mindray DS USA, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $25 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$61,568 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,137 anesthesiology 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.
Other anesthesiology in Lawrenceville
- Amit PatelLawrenceville$17K
- William EppsLawrenceville$14K
- Eric BrownLawrenceville$4K
- Devangi PatelLawrenceville$3K
- Robert BlackLawrenceville$3K
- Margaret HoltzMarietta$622K
- Mark HamiltonAtlanta$351K
- Michael AshmoreAtlanta$214K
- Jessica McCabeJohns Creek$62K
- Uma ShastriAtlanta$35K
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.