Has William Barfield, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,693 in general payments to William Barfield, MD across 80 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean William Barfield, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about William Barfield, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

William Barfield, MD

Otolaryngology · Evans, GANPI 1386618155

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.7% of the total across 80 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 19.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $316, 2.3 times the $139 reported in 2019.

$1,693in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 80 payments — averaging $21.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$337
Optinose US, Inc.$286
GSK$226
Novo Nordisk$219
Sanofi$215
Intersect ENT, Inc.$106
plus $302 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,63797%
Education$563%

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
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	16	$337
Optinose US, Inc.	18	$286
GSK	4	$226
Novo Nordisk	11	$219
Sanofi	9	$215
Intersect ENT, Inc.	3	$106
AbbVie(2 entities)	5	$73
Kaleo, Inc.	4	$54
Genentech USA, Inc.	2	$46
Stryker	1	$28
Acclarent, Inc	2	$27
Biocryst US Sales Co., LLC	1	$21
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$18
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$16
Medtronic	1	$15
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$4

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.

NUCALA$112

How this compares

$1,693 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 308 otolaryngology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$249,519

Medicare patients

1,112

Services billed

7,418

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
Ipratropium Bromide	90	$3,336
Epinephrine	12	$2,569
Fluticasone Propionate	117	$1,642
Famotidine	124	$1,161
Omeprazole	159	$1,158
Doxycycline Hyclate	82	$810
Azelastine Hcl	25	$576
Mometasone Furoate	11	$446
Ofloxacin	19	$327
Lidocaine Hcl ViscousLidocaine Hcl	13	$292
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	30	$279
Montelukast Sodium	28	$255
Estradiol	15	$234
Methylprednisolone	35	$226
Meclizine Hcl	29	$216

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Evans

Jonathan LindmanEvans$55K
Dozier HoodFayetteville$347K
Christopher MelroySavannah$298K
Karen HoffmannAtlanta$223K
Jose StolovitzkyAtlanta$81K
Gregory PostmaAugusta$37K
Oswaldo HenriquezSmyrna$15K
Donald BrowningLawrenceville$14K
Robert GadlageDuluth$14K
Lawrence WeissMarietta$9K

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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.

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