Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Jon Poling

Neurology Athens, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1457303638 CMS profile 19941

1086 1/2 Baxter St, Athens, GA 30606

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General payments

$48,176

593 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$8,991

Paid to them · 1 record reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$20,321 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2020–2024

Through program year 2025, Jon Poling of Athens, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $48,176 across 593 general payments and $8,991 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $20,321 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 90th percentile of Neurology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,997 107
2024 General $1,448 80
2023 General $3,099 89
2022 General $1,004 76
2021 General $7,959 76
2021 Research $8,991 1
2020 General $16,038 61
2019 General $16,630 104

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Jon Poling
  • Neurology median
  • Middle half of Neurology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Jon Poling were reported at $1,997. Among 11,022 Neurology profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $118 and $2,344.

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Year Jon Poling Neurology median Middle half National median
2019 $16,630 $474 $118–$2,177 $163
2020 $16,038 $367 $82–$2,309 $114
2021 $7,959 $438 $104–$2,547 $132
2022 $1,004 $442 $103–$2,388 $149
2023 $3,099 $464 $119–$2,312 $160
2024 $1,448 $468 $119–$2,323 $164
2025 $1,997 $457 $118–$2,344 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Amgen Inc. $20,013 35 payments
  2. Allergan Inc. $17,780 47 payments
  3. Argenx US, Inc. $1,630 7 payments
  4. AbbVie, Inc. $1,472 168 payments
  5. Banner Life Sciences, LLC $971 5 payments
  6. EMD Serono, Inc. $836 58 payments
  7. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. $521 53 payments
  8. UCB, Inc. $475 21 payments
  9. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $473 29 payments
  10. TG Therapeutics, Inc. $334 10 payments
  11. Other $3,669 160 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $35,223 27 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $9,354 553 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $1,438 1 payment
  4. Travel and Lodging $1,161 8 payments
  5. Honoraria $900 1 payment
  6. Education $101 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AIMOVIG $19,974 40 payments
  2. UBRELVY Neuroscience $10,812 18 payments
  3. BOTOX Neuroscience $4,993 10 payments
  4. UBRELVY Neuroscience $2,379 87 payments
  5. VYVGART $1,588 5 payments
  6. BAFIERTAM $971 5 payments
  7. QULIPTA $568 85 payments
  8. BOTOX Botox Therapeutic $383 24 payments
  9. BOTOX Hyperhydrosis $359 26 payments
  10. KYNMOBI $341 21 payments
  11. Other $5,676 320 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Eli Lilly and Company $8,991 1 payment

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 70 drugs

Part D claims

2,328

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$1,569,398

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

29.2%

Median for Neurology: 25.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Betaseron Interferon Beta-1b Brand 26 $247,883
Gammagard Liquid Immun Glob G(Igg)/Gly/Iga Ov50 Brand 24 $178,003
Copaxone Glatiramer Acetate Brand 11 $172,318
Avonex Pen (4 Pack) Interferon Beta-1a Brand 18 $149,225
Rebif Rebidose Interferon Beta-1a/Albumin Brand 14 $148,022
Plegridy Pen Peginterferon Beta-1a Brand 14 $118,021
Kesimpta Pen Ofatumumab Brand 13 $110,731
Teriflunomide Generic 26 $78,167
Glatopa Glatiramer Acetate Brand 28 $72,300
Briviact Brivaracetam Brand 30 $52,255

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 70 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 13,695 Part D prescribers listed as Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 91 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$1,041,073

Of which drugs: $847,315

Medicare patients

906

Average age 73

Services billed

78,331

520 women, 386 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 57%
Depression 32%
Ischemic heart disease 29%
Chronic kidney disease 29%
Diabetes 28%
Alzheimer's or dementia 19%
Heart failure 18%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, onabotulinumtoxina, 1 unit J0585 Office 50 31,081 $145,130
Infusion, normal saline solution, 250 cc J7050 Office 17 82 $41
Injection, diphenhydramine hcl, up to 50 mg J1200 Office 11 25 $16

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

First 5 of 35 products · payments 2024

Two 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.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
BOTOX
  • AbbVie, Inc. $128
$128 — 31,081
Briviact
  • UCB, Inc. $95
$95 30 —
UBRELVY
  • AbbVie, Inc. $82
$82 — —
PANZYGA
  • Octapharma USA, Inc. $40
  • PFIZER INC. $28
$69 — —
DUPIXENT
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $63
$63 — —

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.

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Records

594 reported

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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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