Tracy Chason, MD
Surgery · Tifton, GANPI 1033430814
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $4,000 of the $6,607 with a category attached, or 60.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 94.2% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,372 and has fallen 98.2% since, to $114 in 2025.
Across 34 payments — averaging $194.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Conmed Corporation$86
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$42
- Medtronic$41
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$31
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$29
- plus $153 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,25019%
- Food & beverage$1,34920%
- Education$4,00061%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 18 | $6,225 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $86 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $41 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $31 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| BD | 1 | $26 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Monaghan Medical Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $6 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$4,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,725
How this compares
$6,607 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 855 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 71 | $571 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Tifton
- Chad CopperGainesville$999K
- Zachary KlaassenAugusta$763K
- Stephen OdomAustell$599K
- Fritz Jean-PierreMarietta$464K
- Kendra GrubbAtlanta$374K
- Harry LightfootSmyrna$241K
- Oliver WhippleSavannah$222K
- Nelson RoyallGainesville$220K
- Ankit PatelAtlanta$217K
- Kevin NguyenAtlanta$161K
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.