Yeimi Ortiz-Chavez
Internal Medicine · Dalton, GANPI 1598311466
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 191 payments — averaging $18.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$675
- AbbVie$431
- AstraZeneca$293
- Novo Nordisk$258
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$230
- Corcept Therapeutics$170
- plus $1K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,490100%
- Education$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 39 | $675 |
| AbbVie | 25 | $431 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $293 |
| Novo Nordisk | 16 | $258 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 13 | $230 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 9 | $170 |
| Amgen | 11 | $163 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $132 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $131 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $114 |
| Bayer | 5 | $109 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 5 | $89 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 4 | $74 |
| GSK | 4 | $74 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $48 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $39 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Merck | 1 | $27 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $18 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc | 1 | $17 |
| VBI Vaccine (delaware) Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- MOUNJARO$114
How this compares
$3,504 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.
Other internal medicine in Dalton
- Brian PearlmanDalton$338K
- Pablo PerezDalton$236K
- Paul BradleySavannah$76.4M
- Kimball JohnsonAtlanta$51.1M
- Bram WieskopfWoodstock$21.9M
- Dwight BlakeUnion City$13.3M
- Charlotte Grayson-MathisFayetteville$9.6M
- Christopher RecknorGainesville$9.2M
- James HarperJohns Creek$9.2M
- Robert Springer IiiAtlanta$5.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.