Yolanda Hill
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 97 payments — averaging $19.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$426
- AstraZeneca$304
- Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$212
- AbbVie$120
- Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$97
- Pfizer$90
- plus $661 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,85097%
- Education$603%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 18 | $426 |
| AstraZeneca | 16 | $304 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 12 | $212 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $120 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 5 | $97 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $90 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $86 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 4 | $70 |
| Merck | 4 | $65 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $55 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 3 | $53 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Bayer | 2 | $36 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $30 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $25 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $19 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
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.
- KRYSTEXXA$125
How this compares
$1,910 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 6,258 family providers in Georgia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Losartan Potassium | 15 | $141 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 14 | $55 |
| Hydrochlorothiazide | 14 | $45 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Macon
- Villanueva SpiveyMacon$18K
- Allie McAllisterMarietta$299K
- Tonita WashingtonLawrenceville$153K
- Erin HenryLawrenceville$135K
- Trisha RomanPeachtree City$134K
- Lori ReedMarietta$106K
- Julia BranchCumming$102K
- Hannah BanachWaycross$85K
- Morgan GroothandEvans$81K
- Anna Carolina WrightLilburn$69K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.