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Industry payments to physicians · Georgia · 2024

Georgia

In Georgia, drug and device makers reported $68M in general payments to 33,237 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $2,058 each — plus $194M tied to research and $12M in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.
$68M
general payments
33,237
covered recipients paid
$2,058
mean per physician

Top specialties in Georgia

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Orthopaedic Surgery $6M
Neurological Surgery $6M
Physician Assistant $3M
Psychiatry $2M
Cardiovascular Disease $2M
Family $2M
Dermatology $2M
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine $2M
Surgery $2M
Neurology $2M
Internal Medicine $2M
Gastroenterology $2M

Highest-paid physicians in Georgia

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Regis Haid Neurological Surgery · Atlanta · top payer: Globus Medical, Inc. $4M
Ormonde Mahoney Orthopaedic Surgery · Athens · top payer: Stryker Corporation $2M
John Xerogeanes Sports Medicine · Atlanta · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $904,866
Nicolas Chronos Cardiovascular Disease · Eatonton · top payer: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $890,542
John Dorchak Orthopaedic Surgery · Columbus · top payer: Globus Medical, Inc. $694,401
Richard Petty Psychiatry · Loganville · top payer: Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. $642,055
Firas Hougeir Dermatology · Douglasville · top payer: E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $631,680
Daniel Silcox Orthopaedic Surgery · Atlanta · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $600,425
John Cowan Neurological Surgery · Rome · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $590,901
John Heller Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Atlanta · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $585,548
Tomas Chao Medical · Woodstock · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $484,655
Thomas Bradbury Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Atlanta · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $484,402
Sagar Lonial Hematology · Atlanta · top payer: TG THERAPEUTICS, INC. $477,367
Bruce Ziran Orthopaedic Trauma · Lawrenceville · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $437,522
David Cohen Dermatology · Macon · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $435,243
Scott Boden Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Atlanta · top payer: Orthofix Medical, Inc. $423,752
Douglas Diruggiero Physician Assistant · Cartersville · top payer: Genzyme Corporation $390,302
Michael Gibson Internal Medicine · Smyrna · top payer: CSL Plasma Inc. $388,261
John Hemphill Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology · Savannah · top payer: EISAI INC. $385,224
Nima Kokabi Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Atlanta · top payer: Sirtex Medical Inc $362,293
Thomas Morrison Neurological Surgery · Atlanta · top payer: Stryker Corporation $356,375
Michael Blaiss Allergy & Immunology · Roswell · top payer: Genzyme Corporation $306,478
Stephen Martin Emergency Medicine · Marietta · top payer: CSL Plasma Inc. $301,723
Charles Decook Orthopaedic Surgery · Cumming · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $299,729
Ronald Goldstein Dentist · Atlanta · top payer: Hu-Friedy Mfg. Co., LLC $294,032

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Georgia — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.