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

William Chafin

Rheumatology Gainesville, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1225122716 CMS profile 282264

700 S Enota Dr Ne, Gainesville, GA 30501

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General payments

$18,500

1,070 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, William Chafin of Gainesville, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $18,500 across 1,070 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 81st percentile of Rheumatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $2,712 145
2024 General $4,616 211
2023 General $3,076 186
2022 General $2,647 164
2021 General $1,899 128
2020 General $764 55
2019 General $2,785 181

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • William Chafin
  • Rheumatology median
  • Middle half of Rheumatology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to William Chafin were reported at $2,712. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.

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Year William Chafin Rheumatology median Middle half National median
2019 $2,785 $744 $153–$2,687 $163
2020 $764 $462 $98–$2,027 $114
2021 $1,899 $531 $101–$2,153 $132
2022 $2,647 $627 $125–$2,303 $149
2023 $3,076 $741 $145–$2,524 $160
2024 $4,616 $830 $166–$2,660 $164
2025 $2,712 $903 $171–$2,775 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $5,391 296 payments
  2. Amgen Inc. $2,234 124 payments
  3. UCB, Inc. $2,152 156 payments
  4. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,726 102 payments
  5. Pfizer Inc. $1,080 62 payments
  6. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $907 50 payments
  7. Genzyme Corporation $567 34 payments
  8. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $558 33 payments
  9. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $557 29 payments
  10. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $429 24 payments
  11. Other $2,898 160 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $17,586 1,067 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $850 1 payment
  3. Education $64 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. RINVOQ $2,915 194 payments
  2. Cimzia $1,727 130 payments
  3. COSENTYX Immunology $1,007 61 payments
  4. XELJANZ $958 55 payments
  5. COSENTYX Dermatology $803 46 payments
  6. SKYRIZI $802 40 payments
  7. Otezla $748 34 payments
  8. TREMFYA $646 36 payments
  9. Enbrel $580 29 payments
  10. ORENCIA $558 33 payments
  11. Other $8,820 522 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 · 52 drugs

Part D claims

6,223

Median for Rheumatology: 1,511

Drug cost

$8,659,999

Median for Rheumatology: $1,139,948

Branded share of claims

38.9%

Median for Rheumatology: 28.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Enbrel Sureclick Etanercept Brand 354 $2,870,900
Strensiq Asfotase Alfa Brand 24 $2,088,047
Humira(Cf) Pen Adalimumab Brand 185 $1,338,872
Orencia Clickject Abatacept Brand 174 $1,019,512
Enbrel Etanercept Brand 23 $275,357
Kevzara Sarilumab Brand 57 $239,694
Rinvoq Upadacitinib Brand 33 $218,069
Enbrel Mini Etanercept Brand 27 $200,105
Actemra Actpen Tocilizumab Brand 43 $158,529
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate Generic 1,232 $60,618

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 52 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 5,224 Part D prescribers listed as Rheumatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 78 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$3,747,956

Of which drugs: $3,369,646

Medicare patients

685

Average age 74

Services billed

502,594

494 women, 191 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 75%
Osteoporosis 30%
Ischemic heart disease 25%
Depression 25%
Chronic kidney disease 24%
Diabetes 23%
Heart failure 15%
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, abatacept, 10 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered) J0129 Office 75 35,031 $1,174,011
Injection, certolizumab pegol, 1 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered) J0717 Office 99 316,401 $1,143,536
Injection, tocilizumab, 1 mg J3262 Office 34 104,244 $491,292
Injection, rituximab, 10 mg J9312 Office 21 4,100 $250,879
Injection, golimumab, 1 mg, for intravenous use J1602 Office 35 19,740 $178,309
Injection, denosumab, 1 mg J0897 Office 18 1,381 $28,559
Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle 90653 Office 33 33 $2,700
Injection, zoledronic acid, 1 mg J3489 Office 25 125 $600
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 Office 83 5,320 $543
Injection, methylprednisolone sodium succinate, 5 mg J2919 Office 19 825 $190

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 31 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
RINVOQ
$633 33 —
Cimzia
$351 — 316,401
SKYRIZI
$341 — —
COSENTYX
$265 — —
XELJANZ
$195 — —

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

1,070 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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