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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,558 in general payments to William Norris, MD across 177 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 Norris, 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 Norris, 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 Norris, MD

Gastroenterology · Atlanta, GANPI 1801988811

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,558in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 177 payments — averaging $20.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$972
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$363
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$308
Boston Scientific$259
Johnson & Johnson$239
QOL Medical, LLC$190
plus $1K from 23 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$221%
Food & beverage$3,53799%

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
AbbVie(2 entities)	60	$972
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	19	$363
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	12	$308
Boston Scientific	8	$259
Johnson & Johnson	14	$239
QOL Medical, LLC	7	$190
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc	9	$169
Sanofi	6	$152
Merck	3	$149
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals	6	$145
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$87
Amgen	3	$52
Bristol Myers Squibb	3	$46
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.	3	$45
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	2	$37
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$36
Pentax Of America, Inc.	1	$36
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	2	$35
Organon	2	$35
AstraZeneca	2	$31
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$29
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	1	$25
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$21
Taiho Oncology, Inc.	1	$20
Olympus America Inc.	1	$18
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$18
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	1	$15
Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc.	1	$14
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$12

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

$3,558 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 492 gastroenterology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$170,467

Medicare patients

410

Services billed

2,089

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
Mesalamine	11	$6,880
Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	300	$5,371
Sucralfate	126	$3,181
Colesevelam Hcl	21	$2,816
Pantoprazole Sodium	185	$1,769
Omeprazole	99	$1,333
Famotidine	99	$1,006
Dicyclomine Hcl	30	$361
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	28	$240
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	11	$174
Ondansetron Hcl	14	$152
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	16	$96
Amoxicillin	12	$45
Levofloxacin	12	$27

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other gastroenterology in Atlanta

Douglas WolfAtlanta$6.4M
Michael GalambosAtlanta$1.8M
Nitin GuptaAtlanta$1.7M
Heba IskandarAtlanta$978K
Cynthia RudertAtlanta$720K
Kavita KongaraAtlanta$492K
Girish AnandAtlanta$425K
Julia LiuAtlanta$412K
Norman GitlinAtlanta$399K
Saul KarpenAtlanta$368K

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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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