William Porter, MD
Family Medicine · Canton, GANPI 1336156165
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 120 payments — averaging $19.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$269
- Lilly USA, LLC$190
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$157
- Edwards Lifesciences$145
- Insulet Corporation$139
- Merck$135
- plus $1K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,30199%
- Education$121%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 10 | $269 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 12 | $190 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 10 | $157 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $145 |
| Insulet Corporation | 8 | $139 |
| Merck | 9 | $135 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $121 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $119 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 7 | $94 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $90 |
| Abbott | 5 | $81 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $73 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 3 | $63 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $51 |
| Amgen | 3 | $43 |
| Ascensia Diabetes Care US Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Cequr Corporation | 1 | $32 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $30 |
| GSK | 2 | $29 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $28 |
| Alcon | 1 | $27 |
| Bayer | 2 | $26 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$145
- Ozempic$115
How this compares
$2,313 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 3,111 family medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 66 | $90,236 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 24 | $38,015 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 17 | $22,858 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 16 | $22,427 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 13 | $8,751 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 16 | $7,875 |
| Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 11 | $6,127 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 13 | $4,815 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 36 | $3,073 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 39 | $2,391 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 256 | $2,146 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 175 | $1,934 |
| Nebivolol Hcl | 42 | $1,627 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 25 | $1,598 |
| Dextroamphetamine-Amphet ErDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine | 28 | $1,580 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $51 | $90,23666 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro | $190 | $60,44240 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $135 | $22,85817 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $12 | $8,75113 claims |
| GSKAnoro Ellipta | $29 | $4,81513 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $30 | $3,07336 claims |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium | $17 | $1,934175 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.
Other family medicine in Canton
- Joseph SurberColumbus$16.6M
- Angela RitterGainesville$15.8M
- Jeffrey KingsleyColumbus$8.1M
- Christopher OldfieldSavannah$6.4M
- Darrell MurrayAtlanta$3.9M
- Ben ThomasAtlanta$3.2M
- Debbie HaginsSavannah$2.1M
- Aziz PiraniLilburn$2.1M
- Nadia CameronAtlanta$2.1M
- John LentzSnellville$1M
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.