Who Paid My Doc
Spero Karas
Sports Medicine Atlanta, GA Medical Doctor
NPI 1104832906 CMS profile 1220394
59 Executive Park Drive South, Suite 1000, Atlanta, GA 30329
General payments
$137,019
Research payments
$83,903
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$158,171
Through program year 2025, Spero Karas of Atlanta, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $137,019 across 75 general payments and $83,903 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $158,171 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 95th percentile of Sports Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
9 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $27,689 | 12 | |
| 2025 | Research | $48,462 | 14 | |
| 2024 | General | $28,135 | 5 | |
| 2024 | Research | $35,442 | 4 | |
| 2023 | General | $24,999 | 5 | |
| 2022 | General | $19,337 | 18 | |
| 2021 | General | $1,325 | 3 | |
| 2020 | General | $24,222 | 15 | |
| 2019 | General | $11,311 | 17 |
Beside peers
- Spero Karas
- Sports Medicine median
- Middle half of Sports Medicine
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Spero Karas were reported at $27,689. Among 2,404 Sports Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $664 and the middle half received between $172 and $3,055.
Show as a table
| Year | Spero Karas | Sports Medicine median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $11,311 | $1,176 | $199–$4,249 | $163 |
| 2020 | $24,222 | $708 | $96–$2,890 | $114 |
| 2021 | $1,325 | $1,213 | $152–$3,994 | $132 |
| 2022 | $19,337 | $1,230 | $159–$3,998 | $149 |
| 2023 | $24,999 | $584 | $146–$2,836 | $160 |
| 2024 | $28,135 | $628 | $163–$3,168 | $164 |
| 2025 | $27,689 | $664 | $172–$3,055 | $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 · 3 drugsPart D claims
59
Drug cost
$276
Branded share of claims
40.7%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen | Brand | 24 | $172 | |
| Naproxen | Generic | 22 | $83 | |
| Promethazine Hcl | Generic | 13 | $21 |
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 1,691 Part D prescribers listed as Sports Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 27 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$36,568
Medicare patients
93
Services billed
406
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Arthritis | 62% | |
| High blood pressure | 56% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 18% | |
| Depression | 16% | |
| Diabetes | 15% | |
| Osteoporosis | 12% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 | Office | 21 | 96 | $72 |
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.
Records
93 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.