---
title: What industry pays physicians in Mississippi (CMS Open Payments 2024)
state: Mississippi
program_year: 2024
general_payments: 14380236
physicians: 9728
source: CMS — Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act), program year 2024
sourceId: src:cms:open-payments:py2024
---

# Industry payments to physicians — Mississippi (2024)

In Mississippi, drug and device makers reported **$14,380,236** in general payments to **9,728** covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for program year 2024 (mean $1,478 each), plus $20,625,519 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 device royalties. Transparency, not a verdict.

## Top specialties

| Specialty | Total | Physicians | Mean per physician |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Family | $1,882,419 | 2,074 | $908 |
| Family Medicine | $1,080,894 | 677 | $1,597 |
| Psychiatry | $807,189 | 121 | $6,671 |
| Neurology | $782,793 | 73 | $10,723 |
| Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | $673,366 | 4 | $168,342 |
| Orthopaedic Surgery | $658,067 | 139 | $4,734 |
| Pulmonary Disease | $548,403 | 72 | $7,617 |
| Cardiovascular Disease | $536,972 | 117 | $4,590 |
| Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism | $491,938 | 43 | $11,440 |
| Hematology & Oncology | $441,729 | 54 | $8,180 |
| Gastroenterology | $393,568 | 103 | $3,821 |
| Dermatology | $374,329 | 64 | $5,849 |

## Highest-paid physicians (general payments)

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

RECORDED CMS Open Payments amounts/counts; totals, means, and rankings are DERIVED. A disclosure record — not evidence of improper influence, not a measure of physician quality, not advice. To verify a physician, search openpaymentsdata.cms.gov. Source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/

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