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Industry payments to physicians · Mississippi · 2024

Mississippi

In Mississippi, drug and device makers reported $14M in general payments to 9,728 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $1,478 each — plus $21M tied to research and $913,577 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.
$14M
general payments
9,728
covered recipients paid
$1,478
mean per physician

Top specialties in Mississippi

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

Family $2M
Family Medicine $1M
Psychiatry $807,189
Neurology $782,793
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology $673,366
Orthopaedic Surgery $658,067
Pulmonary Disease $548,403
Cardiovascular Disease $536,972
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism $491,938
Hematology & Oncology $441,729
Gastroenterology $393,568
Dermatology $374,329

Highest-paid physicians in Mississippi

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

Dodie Mcgee Family · Raymond · top payer: Skye Orthobiologics LLC $772,115
Russell Carlisle Family Medicine · Wesson · top payer: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $642,010
Javed Butler Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Jackson · top payer: Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. $543,282
Solly Chedid Hematology & Oncology · Pascagoula · top payer: Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $309,581
Dharmesh Patel Cardiovascular Disease · Southaven · top payer: Amgen Inc. $259,097
Maxie Gordon Psychiatry · Clinton · top payer: ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) $221,657
Matthew Graves Orthopaedic Surgery · Jackson · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $206,776
Jon Jackson Psychiatry · Jackson · top payer: Alkermes, Inc. $187,053
Wendell Helveston Neurology · Jackson · top payer: EISAI INC. $176,854
Ruth Fredericks Neurology · Jackson · top payer: Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $176,783
Chasity Torrence Psychiatry · Whitfield · top payer: ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) $175,188
William Geissler Hand Surgery · Jackson · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $171,495
Demondes Haynes Pulmonary Disease · Jackson · top payer: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $166,454
Kurt Buechler Psychiatry · Ridgeland · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $160,279
Stephen Landy Neurology · Tupelo · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $156,721
William Frazier Pulmonary Disease · Canton · top payer: GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $149,217
Lavinia Drambarean Physician Assistant · Hattiesburg · top payer: Janssen Biotech, Inc. $129,066
Robert Long Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Jackson · top payer: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $128,958
Ronald Schwartz Neurology · Hattiesburg · top payer: Lilly USA, LLC $114,745
Keith Stokes Family Medicine · Lexington · top payer: CSL Plasma Inc. $113,705
Lindsey Zubritsky Dermatology · Ocean Springs · top payer: Galderma Laboratories, L.P. $112,692
David Bailey Surgery · Gulfport · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $107,887
Christopher Bell Acute Care · Tupelo · top payer: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. $103,069
Mark Borchelt Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Gulfport · top payer: Lilly USA, LLC $96,039
Sreenivas Koka Prosthodontics · Leland · top payer: Envista Holdings Corporation $95,161

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 Mississippi — 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.