Vanessa Richardson, MD
Dermatology · Atlanta, GANPI 1366785735
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.0% of the total across 57 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 16 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $757 and has fallen 84.7% since, to $116 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for dermatology clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $3,907.
Across 57 payments — averaging $22.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$278
- AbbVie$177
- Pfizer$165
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$123
- Johnson & Johnson$116
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$83
- plus $359 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,28799%
- Education$131%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 3 | $278 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $177 |
| Pfizer | 23 | $165 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 3 | $123 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $116 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $82 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $64 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Prugen, Inc. Pharmaceuticals | 7 | $35 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Amgen | 1 | $24 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Aclaris Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Merck | 1 | $17 |
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
$1,300 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 345 dermatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 124 | $3,100 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 165 | $3,070 |
| Tacrolimus | 43 | $2,236 |
| Ketoconazole | 145 | $2,145 |
| Clindamycin Phos-Benzoyl PeroxClindamycin Phos/Benzoyl Perox | 20 | $948 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 31 | $662 |
| Ciclopirox | 31 | $536 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 23 | $493 |
| Mupirocin | 39 | $469 |
| Fluocinolone AcetonideFluocinolone/Shower Cap | 16 | $440 |
| Hydrocortisone | 36 | $438 |
| Desonide | 28 | $388 |
| Hydroxyzine Hcl | 47 | $384 |
| Retin-ATretinoin | 13 | $346 |
| Nystatin | 15 | $292 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Atlanta
- Zakiya RiceAtlanta$1.1M
- Joseph PayneAtlanta$711K
- Jamie WeismanAtlanta$620K
- Mack RachalAtlanta$260K
- Sumayah TaliaferroAtlanta$104K
- Sarah ChisolmAtlanta$59K
- Anna PareAtlanta$58K
- Lauren OrensteinAtlanta$52K
- Chelsie RogersAtlanta$43K
- Ron FeldmanAtlanta$29K
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.