Thekkepat Sekhar, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Warner Robins, GANPI 1902863970
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $9,011 of the $9,850 with a category attached, or 91.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 94.9% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $9,398 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $101 in 2024. Among obstetrics & gynecology 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 36 payments — averaging $273.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- AbbVie$111
- Shield Therapeutics Inc$68
- Organon$57
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$48
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$32
- plus $188 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3183%
- Food & beverage$5215%
- Education$9,01191%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $9,347 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $111 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 3 | $68 |
| Organon | 3 | $57 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Optumhealth Care Solutions, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Vertex | 1 | $20 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $11 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$9,312
How this compares
$9,850 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,324 obstetrics & gynecology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medroxyprogesterone Acetate | 31 | $1,122 |
| Megestrol Acetate | 12 | $297 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 21 | $217 |
| Fluconazole | 15 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Warner Robins
- Tan-Loc NguyenWarner Robins$12K
- Vijaya VellaWarner Robins$12K
- Sarah StanescuWarner Robins$10K
- Edmund KimLawrenceville$628K
- Jacquelin WaltersDuluth$147K
- Nicole SparksJohns Creek$121K
- Lethenia BakerThomaston$111K
- Renee AllenAtlanta$74K
- Matthew RalstenFayetteville$64K
- Murray FreedmanAugusta$48K
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.