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

Obinnaya Emerole

Macon, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1558314252 CMS profile 161489

654 1St St, Macon, GA 31201

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General payments

$8,062

251 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$60,830 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2024–2025

Through program year 2025, Obinnaya Emerole of Macon, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,062 across 251 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $60,830 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.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $2,820 63
2024 General $973 36
2023 General $1,352 33
2022 General $749 36
2021 General $553 33
2020 General $290 18
2019 General $1,324 32

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Obinnaya Emerole
  • Georgia median
  • Middle half of Georgia
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Obinnaya Emerole were reported at $2,820. Among 34,129 Georgia profiles paid that year, the median was $183 and the middle half received between $50 and $656.

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Year Obinnaya Emerole Georgia median Middle half National median
2019 $1,324 $177 $54–$648 $163
2020 $290 $130 $38–$432 $114
2021 $553 $141 $38–$499 $132
2022 $749 $164 $45–$574 $149
2023 $1,352 $177 $49–$620 $160
2024 $973 $177 $51–$638 $164
2025 $2,820 $183 $50–$656 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Philips Electronics North America Corporation $1,856 12 payments
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $685 13 payments
  3. Pfizer Inc. $612 30 payments
  4. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $585 30 payments
  5. Abbott Laboratories $387 11 payments
  6. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $364 21 payments
  7. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $327 21 payments
  8. Novo Nordisk Inc $304 6 payments
  9. Shockwave Medical, Inc $277 3 payments
  10. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $259 16 payments
  11. Other $2,407 88 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $6,814 244 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $1,225 5 payments
  3. Education $23 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. IGT Devices Undivided $882 3 payments
  2. VYNDAQEL $534 25 payments
  3. (6571) Eagle Eye $424 4 payments
  4. VERQUVO $408 23 payments
  5. Eagle Eye $403 3 payments
  6. GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS $335 4 payments
  7. ENTRESTO $293 19 payments
  8. FARXIGA $290 16 payments
  9. TRELEGY ELLIPTA $242 15 payments
  10. FUROSCIX $219 6 payments
  11. Other $3,869 141 payments

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 · 67 drugs

Part D claims

7,375

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$1,200,111

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

33.6%

Median for Cardiology: 25.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 311 $241,755
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 227 $241,706
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 183 $165,850
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 220 $162,263
Trelegy Ellipta Fluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter Brand 143 $107,515
Mounjaro Tirzepatide Brand 56 $63,131
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 57 $42,615
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 51 $39,702
Brilinta Ticagrelor Brand 30 $21,604
Rybelsus Semaglutide Brand 15 $18,644

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 67 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 18,782 Part D prescribers listed as Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 40 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$192,183

Of which drugs: $1,257

Medicare patients

469

Average age 73

Services billed

4,708

283 women, 186 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%
Ischemic heart disease 61%
Heart failure 56%
Diabetes 54%
Chronic kidney disease 52%
Arthritis 47%
COPD 32%
Atrial fibrillation 23%
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, regadenoson, 0.1 mg J2785 Office 49 196 $1,006
Injection, aminophyllin, up to 250 mg J0280 Office 21 35 $251

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 11 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
FUROSCIX
  • SCPHARMACEUTICALS INC. $110
$110 — —
XARELTO
  • Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $103
$103 51 —
VYNDAQEL
  • PFIZER INC. $94
$94 — —
AIRSUPRA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $61
$61 — —
INJECTAFER
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc. $54
$54 — —

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

251 reported

Every 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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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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