Who Paid My Doc
Joann Karaga
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Psychiatric/Mental Health, Adult Atlanta, GA Clinical Nurse Specialist
NPI 1629282785 CMS profile 10881373
1001 Johnson Ferry Rd Ne, Atlanta, GA 30342
General payments
$691
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Joann Karaga of Atlanta, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $691 across 27 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.
General payments for this record sit in the 69th percentile of Clinical Nurse Specialist, Psychiatric/Mental Health, Adult profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
4 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $139 | 5 | |
| 2024 | General | $55 | 3 | |
| 2023 | General | $289 | 13 | |
| 2022 | General | $207 | 6 |
Beside peers
- Joann Karaga
- Clinical Nurse Specialist, Psychiatric/Mental Health, Adult median
- Middle half of Clinical Nurse Specialist, Psychiatric/Mental Health, Adult
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Joann Karaga were reported at $139. Among 197 Clinical Nurse Specialist, Psychiatric/Mental Health, Adult profiles paid that year, the median was $174 and the middle half received between $71 and $653.
Show as a table
| Year | Joann Karaga | Clinical Nurse Specialist, Psychiatric/Mental Health, Adult median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $0 | — | — | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | — | — | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $152 | $38–$472 | $132 |
| 2022 | $207 | $172 | $73–$546 | $149 |
| 2023 | $289 | $156 | $56–$560 | $160 |
| 2024 | $55 | $158 | $39–$521 | $164 |
| 2025 | $139 | $174 | $71–$653 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 34 drugsPart D claims
934
Drug cost
$607,121
Branded share of claims
24.4%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingrezza Valbenazine Tosylate | Brand | 19 | $177,708 | |
| Austedo Xr Deutetrabenazine | Brand | 13 | $150,233 | |
| Invega Sustenna Paliperidone Palmitate | Brand | 28 | $97,485 | |
| Invega Trinza Paliperidone Palmitate | Brand | 11 | $91,153 | |
| Aristada Aripiprazole Lauroxil | Brand | 16 | $39,476 | |
| Caplyta Lumateperone Tosylate | Brand | 11 | $23,030 | |
| Lurasidone Hcl | Generic | 24 | $6,926 | |
| Clozapine | Generic | 13 | $2,984 | |
| Aripiprazole | Generic | 42 | $2,282 | |
| Paliperidone Er Paliperidone | Brand | 26 | $2,208 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 34 counted.
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 1,644 Part D prescribers listed as Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 3 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$3,959
Medicare patients
44
Services billed
83
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Depression | 41% | |
| High blood pressure | 39% | |
| Diabetes | 27% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 0% |
Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.
Payments and prescribing
3 products · payments 2024Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VRAYLAR |
|
$22 | — | — |
| PERSERIS |
|
$18 | — | — |
| INGREZZA |
|
$14 | 19 | — |
A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.
Records
27 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.