Psychiatric/Mental Health, Adult in Georgia
22 providers, $87,187 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $206.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays psychiatric/mental health, adult clinicians in Georgia
Across 6 psychiatric/mental health, adult clinicians in Georgia who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $118,025 in total — an average of $19,671 each, of which $19,671 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Julie BurkeCarrollton$78,148
- 2Vernell FloodNorcross$2,768
- 3Dene BellamyDecatur$1,374
- 4Jennifer SimondsAugusta$1,214
- 5Wendy Barnes-MellstromSmyrna$800
- 6Joann KaragaAtlanta$691
- 7Barbara HartsfieldAtlanta$588
- 8Jackie WilliamsAtlanta$346
- 9Pamela RatajczakMilledgeville$247
- 10Ailaf DarfoorLawrenceville$213
- 11Carmen TurnerMoultrie$206
- 12Alexandra WhiddonDecatur$189
- 13Huey ChenDecatur$108
- 14Julie CasadayDecatur$67
- 15Betty BennettSavannah$62
- 16Deborah BeckerWarner Robins$31
- 17Claudette StephensonAthens$28
- 18Laura DuncanWatkinsville$26
- 19Ellen BensonMarietta$22
- 20Patricia MossEvans$22
- 21Charlotte HodgesDemorest$21
- 22Lillie BurnettCanton$18