William Megdal
Interventional Pain Medicine · Athens, GANPI 1063472066
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 71 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 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $453 and has fallen 88.1% since, to $54 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $4,377.
Across 71 payments — averaging $17.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$248
- Boston Scientific$210
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$125
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$114
- Nevro Corp.$88
- Amgen$61
- plus $409 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,255100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 16 | $248 |
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $210 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $125 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $88 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $61 |
| USWM, LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $40 |
| Biogen | 2 | $37 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Abbott | 2 | $27 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $26 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- mild Device Kit$114
How this compares
$1,255 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 129 interventional pain medicine providers in Georgia.
Other interventional pain medicine in Athens
- Daniel ThomasAthens$5K
- Emmanuel GageBrunswick$602K
- Jordan TateJasper$540K
- Christopher BovinetBrunswick$338K
- David RosenfeldCovington$249K
- Nathan NeufeldNewnan$171K
- Ryan BudwanyLawrenceville$123K
- Alexandra MoreiraAtlanta$79K
- Sushanth BodaNewnan$55K
- Christopher AndrianoStockbridge$41K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.