Tawian Livingston, MD
Internal Medicine · Atlanta, GANPI 1538167119
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 617 payments — averaging $15.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$2K
- AstraZeneca$927
- Boehringer Ingelheim$743
- Lilly USA, LLC$667
- Amgen$481
- AbbVie$477
- plus $4K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$9,289100%
- Education$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 226 | $2,268 |
| AstraZeneca | 51 | $927 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 39 | $743 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 42 | $667 |
| Amgen | 27 | $481 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 32 | $477 |
| Novartis | 22 | $418 |
| Abbott | 16 | $369 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 17 | $354 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 16 | $297 |
| Pfizer | 18 | $285 |
| Bayer | 13 | $271 |
| GSK | 12 | $211 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $207 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 10 | $187 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 8 | $185 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 8 | $146 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $99 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $94 |
| Exact Sciences | 5 | $88 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $76 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $71 |
| Merck | 5 | $70 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 4 | $54 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $36 |
| Aytu Biopharma, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $19 |
| Gilead | 1 | $17 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Lupin Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 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.
- Repatha$122
- RYBELSUS$104
- FreeStyle Libre$102
How this compares
$9,298 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 204 | $256,048 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 105 | $164,103 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 95 | $114,422 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 71 | $83,699 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 63 | $82,224 |
| VraylarCariprazine Hcl | 41 | $59,323 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 64 | $53,797 |
| EliquisApixaban | 54 | $52,355 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 26 | $47,167 |
| Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | 44 | $44,836 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 54 | $43,708 |
| DovatoDolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine | 12 | $33,576 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 35 | $33,558 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 42 | $32,367 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 34 | $29,214 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $2,268 | $420,151309 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $667 | $161,589121 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy Xr | $743 | $128,535115 claims |
| AbbVieVraylar, Linzess | $477 | $91,69083 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $927 | $82,22463 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta | $211 | $73,54399 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $285 | $52,35554 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $207 | $43,70854 claims |
| Viiv Healthcare CompanyDovato | $185 | $33,57612 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $297 | $33,55835 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $418 | $25,11329 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Janumet | $70 | $21,83223 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 90th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.
Other internal medicine in Atlanta
- Kimball JohnsonAtlanta$51.1M
- Robert Springer IiiAtlanta$5.3M
- Paulina Rebolledo EsteinouAtlanta$2.1M
- Courtney SheltonAtlanta$1.2M
- Melanie ThompsonAtlanta$1.1M
- Tracey HenryAtlanta$305K
- David WatsonAtlanta$286K
- Priscilla Igho-PemuAtlanta$269K
- Robert HerreraAtlanta$261K
- Syed RahmanAtlanta$211K
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.